A scheme has been lodged to transform an abandoned ex-autism centre into a new school. The Breightmet Centre for Autism on Milthorpe Road has been vacant since it was ordered to close by the Care Quality Commission last year. Earlier this year education provider Birchwood Children’s Services announced their intention to turn the centre into a school and this week more detailed plans were put forward.
Cllr Sean Fielding, of Breightmet, said: “This application is welcome and puts to bed the rumour that the building would be providing overnight accommodation for anybody. “Provided the detail of the planning application is acceptable to the council’s planners, I wish Birchwood Children’s Services every success with this new school in Bolton .” Plans to transform the centre into a school have been put before Bolton Council (Image: MSK Architecture) The ASC Healthcare run centre was ordered to close in June 2023 after inspectors uncovered a catalogue of failings, having twice branded it as “inadequate” the year before.
At a further inspection in March 2023 CQC inspectors uncovered an alleged assault on a patient by a worker while eight others watched along with various other failings. After closing the centre, ASC Healthcare applied to Companies House to be struck off on June 6. But in May this year Birchwood Children’s Services announced their intentions to open a new school for more than youngsters on the autistic spectrum between the ages of five and 18.
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