A former care home in Whitehaven town centre is set to be demolished soon.
Contractors have been employed by Cumberland Council to level Brackenthwaite Care Home in Whitehaven.
The Senhouse Street building has been vacant since 2019 when residents moved to the newly built multi-million-pound home on the former Sekers site at Hensingham, called The Gables.
Plans were lodged by Brackenthwaite’s owner – the then Cumbria County Council, now Cumberland Council, to demolish the buildings in July of last year.
Workers have recently moved on to the site and begun to strip the building out. Services are also being disconnected.
A Cumberland Council spokesman said: “Once this work has been completed, a definite start date for the demolition of the property will be confirmed.
“We expect that the building will be demolished in the early summer.”
A future use of the site is yet to be determined, although there have been calls for extra care housing to be created on the prominent site.
