They sound like the perfect neighbours – elderly, quiet and seldom seen.
But plans to build a new 66-bed care home for pensioners has divided the community of Diss.
If approved in a planning meeting today, it would be the eighth nursing home in the tiny Norfolk town, in addition to 23 residential care homes.
Around a quarter of the town’s population is already aged 65 or over, compared to an average of less than one in five across the UK.
The ageing demographic has led to some objecting to the planning application, amid claims the community is being turned into an ‘old people’s
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