A scheme to build a retirement complex on top of an "attractive" care home in Bromley is set to get the green light.

Churchill Retirement Living want to move into Station Road on the site of Ashling Lodge.

Ashling Lodge is currently an 11 bed care home, but Churchill Retirement are proposing to demolish it and build a 27 bed block across two and three storeys.

Neighbours have objected to the scheme, claiming that Ashling Lodge is needed as a care home and that there is no need for another retirement home.

One objection said Ashling Lodge is an attractive house that should be retained rather than bulldozed.

Another said: "It is scandalous to close down a much-needed (and popular) care home and replace it with blocks of retirement flats. It is also wrong to demolish two other large residential homes, their gardens and many trees."

Churchill Retirement have included plans to demolish numbers 20-24 Station Road in its application.

However, officers have recommended councillors to approve the plans, saying: "The proposed re-development of the site for use as sheltered accommodation / retirement living apartments would result in the increased provision of a different type of housing that would meet a slightly different need."

There is another care home further down the road, and the site is nearby to another sheltered housing accommodation in Knoll Court.

In their application, Churchill Retirement Living said the development would take pressure away health and social services, and allows older people to live independently.

The plans are recommended for approval at a meeting tonight, March 22.