 The council says the Annedd home does not meet standards |
A residential care home in Carmarthenshire has been saved from closure for the time being. Annedd in Llanybydder was scheduled to shut before the end of the year, and a new home built on the site.
But the proposal led to protests, with families of residents worried that there were no suitable care homes nearby for their relatives.
Now the council says it has found a new site and Annedd will remain open until the new home is built.
The closure plan led to a 3,000-name petition and a demonstration march to Carmarthen County Hall by about 100 campaigners in June.
The building is home to about 30 residents, and opponents of the council's proposals argued that it should be improved rather than knocked down.
The local authority said the building, which is 40 years old, did not meet new care standards and needed to be replaced with a �4m "super home".
The council had said it could not delay the project because it could have lost out on the money it had to spend.
It had said, however, it was "prepared to look at" any other sites protesters put forward.
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