Will new Partnership affect future of Hemel Hospital?
- A supporter of Dacorum Health Action Group has asked West Herts NHS Trust whether the recent signing of the Dacorum Investment Partnership (DIP) involving the Borough Council and housebuilders the Hill Group will affect the future of the existing site of Hemel Hospital
- DIP is an agreement ‘aimed at increasing the number of affordable homes and delivering major regeneration projects across the borough’.
- According to the Council, ‘A key priority will be Hemel Hempstead town centre, where our Town Centre Vision sets out plans to transform it into a thriving culture and leisure hub’.
- The NHS and the Council are exploring the idea of replacing the Hospital with a Health Campus on the Market Square in the Marlowes
- The supporter has made this Freedom of Information request:
- ‘Is the co-operation agreement recently announced between Dacorum Borough Council and The Hill Group conditional upon The Hill Group being given sole rights to redevelop land which currently hosts Hemel Hempstead Hospital (and is, I understand, at present owned by the NHS.) ?’