NHS bosses want big rise to 639 flats on Hemel Hospital site
- NHS bosses want to increase the number of flats planned for the Hemel Hospital site by over 40% to 639
- The extra flats would help raise funds for the £135m ‘neighbourhood health centre’ Hub on the Market Square
- Current plans would already allow for 450 flats and a new hospital building on the 12-acre Hemel Hospital site
- But now NHS bosses are pushing instead for complete demolition of the Hospital to accommodate the extra flats
- Dacorum Council says the NHS bid to increase flat numbers is ‘welcome’, because it provides ‘further flexibility on the number of homes that can be delivered in the plan period’.
- The details of the increased housing demands are set out in a ‘Statement of Common Ground’ as part of work on the Dacorum Local Plan
- The link to the Statement is below (go to DBC/ED46 near the bottom of the page):
- https://letstalk.dacorum.gov.uk/examination-documents