Councillors were forced to approve plans to turn a house into a children’s care home despite wanting to refuse it. Initially, members of South Kesteven District Council’s planning committee voted to refuse an application to change The Croft, 65 Main Street, Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir into a children’s care home for up to three children, aged between seven and 17 years old. But as they struggled to come up with planning grounds to refuse the application during the meeting yesterday (Thursday), Councillor Gloria Johnson (Con, Stamford St George’s), said that the council were “not going to win this o…
