Plans for seven-storey hospital building extension

A single-storey building on the site would be demolished to make space for the proposed extension

Plans have been lodged to create a seven-storey extension to a building at Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI).

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has submitted a planning application to Leicester City Council to construct an extension to the Windsor Building on the LRI site.

Planning documents stated the new space would house pharmacy services, laboratories and administrative space.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), the scheme was needed to enable a wider overhaul of Leicester's three hospital sites under the government's New Hospital Programme by relocating services expected to be displaced by the wider works.

The government announced in January the regeneration of Leicester's hospitals would be going ahead but on a delayed timeline, meaning work was expected to start between 2032 and 2034, the LDRS said.

According to planning documents, the proposed extension was similar to a previous application submitted by the trust, which was approved but not implemented due to "funding constraints".

Under the plan, the expansion would be built on the east wing of the building and a single storey building on the site would be demolished to make space for it.