Torbay’s NHS trust has applied to demolish Kitson Hall, a 1960s-built former staff accommodation block at Torbay Hospital. Once deemed ‘unfit’, it has more recently served as offices. The application is now with Torbay Council for consideration.
An ‘unfit’ 1960s building on the Torbay Hospital site is to be demolished.
The bay’s NHS trust has applied to Torbay Council for permission to demolish Kitson Hall, which was built in the Sixties as staff accommodation. In more recent years it has been used as offices.
The application says Kitson Hall is in an area currently highlighted for re-development in the trust’s masterplan. It is no longer fit for purpose, says the trust.
Temporary replacement offices will be housed on a site nearby, but the trust says office staff will be accommodated off-site in the long term.
The application goes on: “By relocating non-clinical services off the acute site, the trust is facilitating demolitions that open up potential development zones, prioritising patient care and operational efficiency.”
It says knocking down the old buildings will save on maintenance and help ‘future-proof’ the hospital, which remains part of the government’s much-vaunted but long-delayed New Hospital Programme.
There will be a temporary car park on the site of Kitson Hall once it has been knocked down.
The ‘modular’ new replacement offices will be made off-site and craned in.
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