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Historic hospital to be bulldozed and rebuilt
THE listed consulting rooms and operating theatres of a historic hospital in Marylebone are to be demolished after 100 years.
Planning chiefs have approved a multi-million pound redevelopment of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Bolsover Street.
The building will be bulldozed and replaced with a new centre, offices and 110 flats, of which just 33 are affordable.
The public private partnership, between the owners RNOH and property firm Bolsover Street Ltd, is worth £90 million.
Mark Masters, projects director at the RNOH Trust said: “This is the culmination of a concerted effort by the trust to redevelop its central London hospital.
“The RNOH provides tertiary services to patients from all over the UK and the ability to review those patients in central London, with its national transport links, is critical to improving patient access.”
The RNOH will remain open while the new medical facility is built on the southern half of the site, where the Homoeopathic Hospital, which has moved to Great Ormond Street, used to be.
The RNOH was founded in 1905 with the amalgamation of London’s three specialist orthopaedic hospitals into a single centre of excellence and can thus trace its history back to 1838.
During the First World War it became an emergency hospital for the military and in early 1918 also housed discharged disabled soldiers.
The development will be undertaken in two phases with the new medical facility and 45 flats expected to be ready by the end of 2009. |
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