Plans for replacement health centre get approval

The new health centre will replace the community hospital destroyed by fire in 2017

Plans to create a new health centre to replace a community hospital that was destroyed in a fire have been approved.

The Weybridge Community Hospital burned down in 2017.

The new building will be home to the Phoenix GP practice, which has been formed by the merger of the Rowan Tree and Church Street practices in May 2024.

Elmbridge Borough Council's planning committee backed the scheme unanimously at a meeting on Tuesday.

The fire was believed to have been caused by an electrical fault in a wall-mounted air conditioning unit

Since the blaze, care services have been provided in temporary buildings on the site.

The new facility will also have an urgent treatment centre, community health services, a diagnostics unit and room for a mobile unit to be parked when needed.

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