BOSSES at Twin Valley Homes want to build 14 new dwellings on the site of a former sheltered accommodation building.
Plans have already been submitted to Blackburn with Darwen Council, requesting permission to demolish Ashton House in Ashton Road, Darwen.
And now further plans have been submitted to build six bungalows and eight flats on the site, which will all be affordable housing.
Ashton House was closed last year as Twin Valley opened its new Willow Gardens facility in Union Street.
A spokesman for planning agents Michael Dyson Associates said: " This scheme shows that the currently redundant site can contribute positively to the overall character of the area."
Marsh House town councillor Simon Huggill said he objected to a building being demolished so soon after being built.
He said: "We have got to be looking at a minmum of 100 years for domestic dwellings.
"Surely if the Victorians managed it then we can.
"Basically, Ashton House was badly designed as it has only been there for 30 or 40 years."
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