Surgical unit bid rejected

Plans for a mobile hospital unit in Ludlow, which would have been the first of its kind in the county, have been thrown out amid fears they would damage the character of the town. Plans for a mobile hospital unit in Ludlow, which would have been the first of its kind in the county, have been thrown out amid fears they would damage the character of the town. Planners yesterday rejected a scheme from Nuffield Hospitals, a not-for-profit organisation, to site a mobile hospital at Bromfield, next to the Ludlow Food Centre which is currently being built. It was part of a plan by the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority to cut waiting times for minor procedures in the county. But councillors on South Shropshire District Council\'s development control committee yesterday re-fused the plans and said the location was unsuitable. Read the full story in the Shropshire Star