August 21 2020

Aberdeen City Council has awarded planning consent to the erection of an Elective Care Centre on land to the east of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Billed as a catch-all outpatient clinic the four-storey facility has been designed by Mackie Ramsay Taylor Architects to augment the current hospital through consolidation of a range of patient services.

Outlining the reasons for approval officials wrote: "The proposal is not expected to generate a material increase in car journeys due to its consolidation of existing healthcare services from the wider Foresterhill campus into a single facility.

"Whilst the proposal would result in the loss of a small number of existing car parking spaces, there is significant existing capacity within the nearby multi-storey car park to offset that loss.

"The scale and form of the development is appropriate to its context, with no adverse impact on the wider landscape setting."

Budgeted at £56m the project will be softened through the planting of a daffodil hill and wildflower meadow to enhance the local environment for patients and staff. 

1 Comment

#1 Posted by GlasgowSmilesBetter on 24 Aug 2020 at 14:41 PM

£56m for a daffodil hill and wildflower meadow seems a good deal for the NHS in the their time of need ...

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