Dacorum Council could replace Hospital with up to 600 flats
- Dacorum Borough Council is considering putting up to 600 flats on the site of Hemel Hospital – which it hopes to demolish
- That would be a huge rise of 33% on current plans
- Existing allocations allow for 450 flats on the 12-acre site
- BUT a new document reveals why the Council now wants to flatten the whole Hospital site.
- It says it could put scores more homes there.
- In 2023 the Council expected to put ‘around 150 dwellings’ on the Market Square site
- However building the Hub on the Market Square will mean that that there will be no room there for homes. The Council says there is ‘potential’ for using the current Hospital site instead
- A Dacorum BC document sent in November to Government inspectors says:
- ‘Allocation for healthcare uses removes the ability of the [Market Square] site to deliver homes, however it is noted that once hospital facilities are relocated onto this site there would be potential for Hemel089 [Hemel Hospital] to be further optimised.’
- This gives the game away – our spacious Hospital site could be totally cleared to make way for more and more flats
- Meanwhile services would be squeezed onto the one-acre Market Square