NHS

Appeal: Prototype prefabricated hostel refused in green belt

14.05.2021

An inspector has refused to grant temporary permission for a prefabricated hostel prototype on green belt land in Staffordshire, ruling that the benefits of its potential uses, including NHS staff...

Case study: Closer look - Healthy new towns

05.02.2021

The Planner

COVID19 | England | Health | healthy new towns | NHS

The NHS Healthy New Towns programme worked with 10 demonstrator sites across England to look at ways in which the development of new places ‘could create healthier and connected communities with integrated...

Call for £1.2 billion investment to prevent road deaths and injuries

18.09.2020

Huw Morris

Investing £1.2 billion in road safety would prevent more than 8,000 fatal and serious injuries in the next 20 years.

Appeal: Blood bank redevelopment approved despite local objections

24.07.2020

Matt Moody

A developer’s unpopular plans to build 86 flats at the site of a former NHS blood centre in Essex have been approved following a week-long inquiry, after an inspector deemed the density of the scheme...

Appeal: Pandemic does not justify overflow car park in green belt

22.05.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against an area of overflow parking at a care home in Nottingham’s green belt, despite the appellant’s ‘elegantly and forcefully put’ argument.

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Appeal: Return to original use not exempt from financial contribution

01.05.2020

Matt Moody

A retired doctor’s plan to convert her listed townhouse surgery in Richmond back into a home has been rejected after an inspector ruled that the scheme was not exempt from affordable housing duty.

Major new healthcare hub proposed for key Derry regeneration site

22.02.2019

Roger Milne

Derry | Health | NHS | Northern Ireland

Ambitious proposals to establish a new primary healthcare hub at Fort George, the former army base in Derry, have been revealed by the Western Health and Social Care Trust (WHSCT).

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Homes for health staff could be built on surplus NHS land

31.01.2018

Laura Edgar

affordable housing | England | Health | Housing | NHS

The government has announced that surplus NHS land will be used to deliver affordable housing, with up to 3,000 homes for NHS staff.

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Nurses priced out of NHS homes

10.01.2018

Laura Edgar

The New Economics Foundation has said homes to be built on NHS land will have an average expected sale price that is 10 times the annual salary of a nurse.

England round-up: Businesses urged to take the lead in Great North Plan; Land worth £172m sold by NHS trusts in 2015-16

17.06.2016

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 11 June-17, 2016

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