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Warm room to open at church community hub

Noni Needs
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Google A corrugated metal warehouse at Jacobs Well Care Centre. The entrance gate is between brick walls topped with coiled, barbed wire.Google
Jacobs Well Care Centre already provides a food bank and furniture hub

A Christian charity has won permission to build a warm room at a community hub.

Jacobs Well Care Centre in Gosport, Hampshire, said the new building would replace a dilapidated storage structure at its site in Toronto Place.

The charity said it would be used by visitors to the site's food bank, second hand furniture showroom and other facilities.

The planning application was approved by Gosport Borough Council.

The care centre, which was founded in Gosport in 1992, moved to its current site in 2012.

It provides food for more than 600 families, as well as supplying cheap furniture and free school uniforms, according to the charity's application.

The new 82-sq-metre (880-sq-foot) building will be clad in steel and grey paint to fit in with its industrial-style surroundings.

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