MEDICS have expressed worries over plans for a 118-bedroom care home in Carnforth.
Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group says it is concerned the home for the elderly would bring an extra workload to the town's Ash Trees Surgery.
In a letter to Lancaster City Council planners, the group said it understood many of the residents would be at the end of their lives, and a significant number were likely to have moved to the town, so would be new patients to the GP practice.
The plans by applicant Simon Tomlinson for farmland north-east of the Ex-Servicemen's Club, at Scotland Road, came before councillors this week.
The planning and highways regulatory committee was recommended by officers to refuse planning consent by officers, on the grounds of landscape harm to the greenfield site.
However, councillors voted to postpone their decision until April's meeting, to give applicant Simon Tomlinson time to give more information.
Fifteen neighbours have objected to the three-storey home, which would employ 40 full-time and 80 part-time staff.
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