Ludlow hospital land plan approved
Wednesday 20th October 2010, 10:18AM BST.
Health bosses have approved a deal to buy land for a new £27 million hospital in south Shropshire, it emerged today.
The West Midlands Strategic Health Authority gave Shropshire County Primary Care Trust the go-ahead to buy land at Ludlow’s Eco Business Park yesterday for a new hospital in the town.
Papers for yesterday’s meeting put the cost of acquiring the site at £1m.
The new facility, which will include the town’s two GP surgeries, will replace the current hospital on Gravel Hill.
Most Commented
- Clampdown on Shrewsbury chuggers
- Bishop's gay marriage views do nothing to support bible teachings
- Letter: Alcohol price plans annoy me
- Planners ordered to stay on Newport visit bus
- Letter: Angered by close encounter of the furred kind
- Letter: No sense in overseas job adverts
- The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff doesn't raise a smile
Shropshire Star on Twitter
Keep updated with the latest breaking news and content on our Twitter feed.
Lifestyle
Interactive Dining Out map
Hundreds of reviews by the Shropshire Star and Express & Star's teams to help you decide where to eat.
Entertainment
All the film reviews
Before you plan a trip to the pictures, get our critics' verdicts on all the latest movie releases.
OUR NEW APP
Get the new Shropshire Star app
Download the Shropshire Star’s new app to your iPad or iPhone to get one week of access to our digital newspapers absolutely FREE.
shropshirestar.com
Popular sections
Useful links
However welcome a new hospital for Ludlow maybe, where is the money to come from to fund this project? And siting the new hospital and other healthcare facilities out of the town on the so-called Eco Park will surely do wonders for the environment. How are patients – whether for the hospital or for the doctors’ surgeries – supposed to get to these facilities, except by use of their cars.
I foresee that this scheme will end up years late, well overbudget, various parts of the new hospital’s facilities being cut not only to save on cost but just to get the building open in the first place and the laudable League of Friends will find its members manning bring and buy stalls to Kingdom come to provide funds for the most basic of equipment.
Report abuse
The hospital will provide many facilities (diagnostic tests, chemotherapy, dialysis) for which people currently travel many miles, there will be a great environmental benefit in these cases plus, more importantly, better quality of life for those patents. And please remember that not all of the GPs patients live in Ludlow, many of us already have to drive into town. People in Ludlow an use the town service/park and ride buses if they don’t want to (or can’t) use a car.
Report abuse