{"id":113110,"date":"2025-09-04T04:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113110\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:11:24","slug":"empty-gloucester-childrens-home-could-be-turned-into-gp-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113110\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Gloucester children&#8217;s home could be turned into GP surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ikram SrahnaBBC News, West of England and<\/p>\n<p>Sarah TurnnidgeBBC News, West of England<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756608068_155_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/da1c9c90-84c4-11f0-b160-45416b2d767d.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"NHS Gloucestershire An artist's impression of the new surgery. It shows a smaller, single-storey building with a large entrance and the words 'Hucclecote Medical Centre' on the front, next to several two-storey buildings. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>NHS Gloucestershire<\/p>\n<p>Plans for the surgery include a car park and 10 new houses on the site<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An empty children&#8217;s home will be turned into a GP surgery if plans are approved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Jordan&#8217;s Brook House in Hucclecote, Gloucester, would be demolished to build a two-storey surgery along with 10 homes on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The proposals have recently been submitted to Gloucester City Council by Gloucestershire County Council. Planning officers have already raised concerns about pedestrian and cycle access, and the surgery&#8217;s design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A spokesperson for NHS Gloucestershire told the BBC that improving GP surgery facilities for locals had been &#8220;a priority&#8221; since 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756608068_155_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/35925ec0-84d9-11f0-957a-0d3acbd64f12.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Google Maps A Google streetview image of the existing building. It is a large, two-storey red-brick building, and appears significantly run down. There are lots of weeds growing in a large parking area, and at least one of the garage doors in warped. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The existing building on the site was constructed in the 1970s<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Jordan&#8217;s Brook House, built in 1970, has served as a children&#8217;s home, respite centre and council offices, but has been vacant since 2022.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The development, funded by the county council, would provide a new home for the  existing Hucclecote Surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The surgery is currently housed in a 1960s building, which NHS Gloucestershire described as &#8220;45% undersized, with clinical rooms smaller than the recommended sizes&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The proposed surgery would have 17 clinical rooms, including three training rooms, as well as a patient drop-off bay outside the building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The scheme would also have a car park with 29 spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The 10 proposed homes comprise two three-beds and eight four-beds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">However, in a response published on the council&#8217;s planning portal on Thursday, officers raised concerns about pedestrian and cyclist access to the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">They also suggested that some of the homes be two-beds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The planning officers stated that the &#8220;design, appearance and orientation&#8221; of the proposed surgery &#8220;leaves a lot to be desired&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">They suggested that a heritage impact statement should be included in further planning documents to address the impact of the scheme on nearby listed properties. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ikram SrahnaBBC News, West of England and Sarah TurnnidgeBBC News, West of England NHS Gloucestershire Plans for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-113110","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\/113110","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=113110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}