Cemetery area more suitable than Market Square for hospital site

24 October 2025
|In News, News Updates
|By philip
  • The last independent rating of possible hospital sites in Dacorum ranked the Market Square site NINTH
  • In a detailed expert analysis in 2018, the tiny site – now being heavily promoted by Dacorum Council for a Health Hub –  was BEATEN BY FOUR OPTIONS on the current Hemel Hospital site and four other possible sites, including ones:
  • In the Maylands Avenue industrial area of Hemel
  • Next to Hemel’s Woodwells Cemetery
  • Using the site of the former Dacorum Borough Council offices in the Marlowes
  • The experts said that the Market Square rated a score of just 8 out of 16 on efficiency, economic benefit and other scores.
  • The Market Square was even soundly beaten by the cemetery area option, which got 11 out of 16