Track record

Thornbury Health centre, South Gloucestershire

Applications

Service

Health & Animal Welfare

Industry

Mike Orr

The project

The proposed works involved the redevelopment of a vacant hospital site to deliver a new health centre. The new health centre will replace an outdated health centre on adjacent land and deliver a series of improvements in terms of doctor capacity, number of consulting rooms and workstations, training opportunities, new equipment, and improved facilities all-round for staff and patients.

To take advantage of funding from NHS England, planning permission had to be secured in short order. A professional team was quickly assembled by the site owner Gloucestershire Council) and their design and build contractor (Morgan Sindall), with Rapleys employed to manage the planning process through pre-application and full application stages.

Our solution

Client advice regarding the planning process, including risk management and recommendations on how best to optimise prospects of success.
Review of consultant inputs to ensure consistency and high quality across the suite of application plans and documents.
Preparation of a robust Planning Statement to justify the proposed development against planning policy and to highlight the key social benefits arising from a new health centre.
Regular positive engagement with officers of the Local Planning Authority and their consultees in order to address concerns quickly and effectively.
Helping the client navigate through both pre-application and full application stages in just over 6 months, at which point planning permission was granted in time to meet the funding deadline.