{"id":112351,"date":"2025-09-03T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112351\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:36:06","slug":"plans-to-add-100000-sq-ft-to-aintree-hospital-floated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112351\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to add 100,000 sq ft to Aintree Hospital floated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wants to construct nearly 100,000 sq ft of healthcare floorspace across three buildings at the 94-acre hospital in Fazakerley.<\/p>\n

Planner WSP is aiding the trust with its application to Liverpool City Council and notes that Aintree Hospital is one of the largest such campuses in Europe.<\/p>\n

Arcadis has developed and brought forward designs for the three blocks.<\/p>\n

The application site is a cleared 3.4-acre parcel of brownfield bound by Sefton Road, Woodlands Road, and Ninth Avenue.<\/p>\n

Three pavilion wards that stood on the site were demolished in June 2023, clearing the square plot for redevelopment.<\/p>\n

\"outpatient<\/p>\n

A relocation of services around the hospital will ensure all inpatient services are kept within the main hospital building. Credit: via planning documents<\/p>\n

Outpatient building<\/p>\n

The 44,400 sq ft part two-, part three-storey outpatient building would accommodate three clinical departments: wheelchair and prosthetics, medicine for older persons, and rheumatology.<\/p>\n

Rheumatology services would relocate from Broadgreen Hospital to the new outpatients building.<\/p>\n

Across the ground floor would be assessment clinics, offices, wheelchair rooms, and physiotherapy facilities, with the first floor hosting additional consultation and treatment rooms as well as the rheumatology department.<\/p>\n

The smaller second floor would host a plant room.<\/p>\n

According to Arcadis, the relocation is necessary after a structural safety committee deemed that eleven roofing zones across the hospital require urgent removal and replacement.<\/p>\n

The \u201cstrategic move\u201d will allow for the decanting of inpatient services from affected departments while maintaining all inpatient services within the main hospital building.<\/p>\n

\"Renal<\/p>\n

The renal building is directly south of the outpatient building. Credit: via planning documents<\/p>\n

Renal building<\/p>\n

Specialised for concerns of blood and kidney health, the single-storey build would provide 11,300 sq ft of tailored healthcare space.<\/p>\n

Essential and specialist kidney care would be provided within the building, which would offer a home haemodialysis training bay and a consulting room alongside offices, treatment rooms, and a reception.<\/p>\n

The renal building would face the outpatient facility, with a central public realm dividing them, including a small number of car parking spaces.<\/p>\n

GP surgery<\/p>\n

The outline aspect of the application concerns the construction of a 40,400 sq ft GP building to replace the ageing Westmoreland GP surgery, which sits directly north of the application site.<\/p>\n

The Cheshire and Mersey ICB, the administrator of the surgery, is aiming to amalgamate the practice with two other smaller practices into a modern fit-for-purpose facility within the hospital area.<\/p>\n

WSP notes that the delivery of the renal and outpatient buildings is considered the priority.<\/p>\n

The team behind the application includes Appletons, AJP, IHP, Hoare Lea, GRM, Eddisons, and Iteriad.<\/p>\n

To view the application, use the planning reference number 25F\/2057 on Liverpool City Council\u2019s planning portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wants to construct nearly 100,000 sq ft of healthcare floorspace across three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-112351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}