Plan for new homelessness shelter
City bosses are planning to convert a former boy’s residential home into 11 flats for homeless people.
Under the plans, 33 Selborne Avenue, in Harefield, Southampton, which was built in the 1970s, is to be turned into a temporary shelter for destitute families.
Southampton City Council said this to cope with a rise in homelessness which it expects to increase because of welfare cuts.
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