Tue, 7th Sep 2010
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Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust agrees to sell St Anne's Hospital in Bowdon
9:00am Thursday 29th July 2010
HEALTH chiefs have agreed the sale of a Victorian hospital in Bowdon - to help pay for a new hospital.
The disused St Anne's Hospital in Bowdon is to be converted into luxury flats.
A sale has been agreed in principle to sell the site to PJ Livesey Group for 'several million pounds', and the proceeds will help fund a hospital planned for Altrincham.
The sale is dependent on planning permission being granted.
A strict planning brief is in place to protect the character of the Italianite design buildings, which are in the Devisdale conservation area.
The site has been unoccupied since 2004 when the last services were transferred to other locations.
Tristram Reynolds, director of estates at the health trust, said: “The hospital is in a prime residential area at the heart of Bowdon and we are delighted that the PJ Livesey Group plans to restore these historic buildings and give them new life by converting them into homes.”
A spokesman for the PJ Livesey Group said: “We are very excited to be working on the St Anne’s Hospital site.
"We will be working closely with local planners and conservation groups to reveal and restore the original historic buildings and to create new homes in this wonderful setting.”
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust said, If all goes well, planning permission could be granted by the end of 2010, allowing the PJ Livesey Group to complete its purchase of the site a few months later.
St Anne's Hospital opened as a specialist unit for patients with tuberculosis in 1885. It was the only free sanatorium in Britain and had space for 16 patients, who stayed on average for two months.
*The business case for the new hospital in Altrincham will go to the board of the strategic health authority, NHS North West, for discussion and decision in September.
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