Manchester approves Christie Hospital expansion
The 7,000 sq ft extension to the cancer treatment centre will allow the Christie NHS Foundation Trust to create two additional wards in the future.
Gilling Dod Architects designed the project, which will deliver two new staircases and two new bed lifts to the southern portion of the Christie Hospital off Oak Road in Withington.
Manchester City Council greenlit the scheme on Tuesday.
Approval will “improve circulation and enable the applicant to better utilise its available theatre capacity”, according to planning documents.
The four-storey development will also support further internal developments to the facility, including the creation of two extra wards to provide the hospital with 19 extra beds for patients.
Additional beds would be delivered through a mix of individual en-suite bedrooms and two-bed bays.
Deloitte is the planning consultant for the approved scheme.
Also on the project team is structural and civil engineer AJP and mechanical engineer CAD21. Arcadis is the quantity surveyor.
To find out more about the plans, search for application number 136095/FO/2023 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
When is it going to stop, donation is meant for research not building after building. And when will the council listen to people not just Christie hospital.
By S winstanley
NIMBYs are against development even when it helps solve cancer. Unbelievable, but not surprising
By Anonymous
People bemoan lack of ‘infrastructure’ when houses are built.
Here we have investment into a fantastic institution that benefits thousands of members of the public each year.
And yet, people still find time to criticise such plans…
By Deja
I remember when the last building was planned (to replace the fire damaged buildings), the NIMBYs tried everything they could to stop it – based on fears of shadows and traffic.
I had the pleasure of speaking to an opponent face to face (not just remotely on social media) and she couldn’t care less how many lives were saved. She was quite determined to believe that any improvement to the hospital would cause her traffic chaos and so the hospital expansion should be blocked.
I’m pretty sure she will try to block this expansion also.
When I proposed to her that perhaps if she really was worried about traffic chaos, does she support a modern rapid transit line past the hospital in some form or another which could reduce traffic congestion.
She strongly opposed that as well, believing it was a waste of tax payers money and attempts to get her out of her car.
Amazing how some people could be sop self centred.
By Joe
Having modern facilities aids cancer recovery as much as research does – an entire holistic approach.
By SW
To be fair it’s very ugly and brings the area down, people pay a lot to live round here
By Dh
You can tell keyboards are being chewed whenever words like NIMBYS are used. Temper tantrums do not an argument make.
By Anonymous
@ S winstanley
‘The people’ want The Christie to treat as many people as possible with cancer. This building extension helps this. That’s why I donate.
By George
The Christie is the jewel in Manchester’s crown. It could expand to Stockport as far as I am concerned. Wait until these NIMBYS need it and then complain. It is revered worldwide and rightly so.
By Elephant
The only temper tantrums are from those people who live in an urban area, next to a world leading cancer research and treatment institute, claim to value its activities but do not want it in their back yard and prefer it was relocated to someone else’s back yard.
Putting the politics and planning aside, the recent extension, large though it may be, is absolutely stunning. I’d love to have a building of that quality near me.
By Christie YIMBY
Amazing how it keeps growing when it was allegedly threatened with closure back in 2005!
However, a more balanced view might be to accept that even institutions which are good for society in general do impose burdens on local residents, most of whom accept them as a fact of life, but the effects are experienced every day. An example of this is the (suspended) residents only parking scheme which has spread way beyond the immediate vicinity of the hospital.
Sadly this country is completely unable to engage in joined up thinking or ‘planning’ (in the widest sense of the word) so when Withington Hospital closed in 2002 the logical conclusion would have been to relocate the Christie there, and then redevelop the Christie site (in the middle of a residential area) for housing.
By Ram Tailor
Yes always a few keyboard chewers on here talking about NIMBYS whenever Christie’s expansion is involved. I’ve used it several times over the decades but even I wish it was relocated to a more suitable site for growth. Never going to happen though so god bless ‘em for saving me twice.
By Anonymous