RESIDENTS have raised objections to plans to demolish an Ilkley care home and replace it with a new-build care facility. Barchester Healthcare Ltd have acquired Hollycroft Care Home and want to knock down the building at 16 Hebers Ghyll Drive, Ilkley, and replace it with a new-build 31-bed care home with associated car parking, landscaping and amenity space provision. The building is not listed but it lies within Ilkley’s Conservation Area where it is described as a ‘key unlisted historic building’. The Edwardian villa was built in 1904 and was converted to a home for the elderly in 1979. It remained a care home for four decades before its closure by its then owners Four Seasons Health Care in 2017.