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.
