{"id":328694,"date":"2025-12-21T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328694\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:28:16","slug":"health-bosses-submit-plans-for-new-leighton-hospital-in-crewe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328694\/","title":{"rendered":"Health bosses submit plans for new Leighton Hospital in Crewe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health bosses have submitted plans to build a new hospital in Cheshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The replacement for Leighton Hospital in Crewe will be built on land next to the current site and has been described as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg9ylxldrmo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the UK&#8217;s &#8220;most digitally-advanced&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was included in the government&#8217;s New Hospitals Programme due to much of the old building containing RAAC, an aerated form of concrete with a limited lifespan, leaving it at risk of collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russ Favager, of Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, said the submission of the planning application was the culmination of two years of hard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health bosses have submitted plans to build a new hospital in Cheshire. The replacement for Leighton Hospital in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-328694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328694","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=328694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}