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Jerusalem Farm holiday home bid: Barn could be for disabled to use
DISABLED children could soon get the chance to stay at the award-winning Jerusalem Farm camp site.
Nearly 250,000 has been earmarked for turning the barn into a three-bedroom holiday cottage in time for summer 2011.
Calderdale Parent and Carers Council is backing the scheme, which has been drawn up by Calderdale Council using cash from the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme.
If the money isn't spent by the end of March, it will have to be returned to the Government, the cabinet was told.
The camp site at Booth has been ranked among the top 10 places in the country to pitch a tent and the sixth best in England, according to Camping magazine.
It is set in a 13-hectare nature reserve, and much of the surrounding countryside is a special protection area for breeding birds.
The council has carried out a feasibility study for converting the barn to provide a meeting room, a kitchen and toilets for the holiday home and to continue providing a classroom for environmental studies.
Cabinet members have agreed the scheme can go ahead subject to a satisfactory business plan.
If the holiday accommodation isn't created at Jerusalem Farm, it might have to be found outside Calderdale, said children and young people spokeswoman Coun Olwen Jennings (Lib-Dem, Todmorden).
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