\n The building on Sunnyside Road North, formerly home to Frames Snooker Centre, will become a day-care treatment centre under proposals submitted by Mr Michael Radford, of Somerset Surgical Services.\n<\/p>\n
\n The site also includes disused squash courts and gym facilities, while North Somerset Council’s planning officer described the existing building as having been “vacant and underutilised for some time”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Under the plans brought by Somerset Surgical Services, the centre will offer a range of healthcare services including operating theatres, endoscopy, outpatient care, pre-operative and recovery suites and physiotherapy, as well as supporting facilities.\n<\/p>\n
\n Inside, the building is planned to include reception and waiting areas, consultation and treatment rooms, staff facilities and accessible toilets.\n<\/p>\n
\n Plans also show pre-operation and recovery wards, with access to an operating theatre and separate preparation rooms for endoscopy facilities.\n<\/p>\n
\n Council planners welcomed the opportunity to put the former leisure building to a new use. The officer’s report said: “The existing building has been vacant and underutilised for some time and currently makes a limited contribution to the surrounding area.”\n<\/p>\n
\n It added: “The proposal would bring the building back into beneficial, productive use through a change of use and limited alterations.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Planners also said the healthcare centre would create a number of full-time and part-time employment opportunities, as well as other economic benefits to the local area.\n<\/p>\n
\n Weston Town Council supported the application when it considered the scheme in April, although some concern was raised by a neighbouring business about the storage of medical waste. The approved plans identify the clinical waste as locked, with bins fitted with lids.\n<\/p>\n
\n Council officers concluded those measures should provide appropriate control and that the development was unlikely to have an unacceptable impact on neighbouring properties, public health or the surrounding environment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Highways officers raised no objection, and the existing vehicle access from Sunnyside Road North will remain.\n<\/p>\n
\n The centre’s proposed operating hours are 7am to 8pm. The site previously had permission for nine three-storey homes allowing demolition of the existing buildings, but the latest scheme instead keeps and repurposes the current structures at the site.\n<\/p>\n
\n Approving the application subject to conditions, the council concluded that the scheme would provide “a valuable community healthcare facility”, while bringing an underused building back into productive use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The building on Sunnyside Road North, formerly home to Frames Snooker Centre, will become a day-care treatment centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812922","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\/812922","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=812922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}