St Bernards Hospital Masterplan
Sector:
Masterplanning
Client:
West London Mental Health NHS Trust
Role:
Led the mental health planning strategy
Value:
£150m
Status:
Completed 2007
Medical Architecture were commissioned for the development of St Bernard’s Hospital masterplan.
The proposals are based on a number of unproved assumptions but fundamentally that the site will continue as a location for forensic and acute mental health treatment, providing bed spaces for 276 forensic and 100 acute patients (equivalent to current provision) with administration, education and staff support facilities.
The project demonstrates:
- How the Trusts foreseeable needs can be catered for on its own territory, within its own buildings, without seeking partnership either with adjoining residential owners or with the adjoining general hospital.
- How the Trust can fulfil legal requirements for the care of the many historic buildings whilst using these buildings to their advantage.
The proposals are based on a number of unproved assumptions but fundamentally that:
- The site will continue as a location for forensic and acute mental health treatment, providing bed spaces for 276 forensic and 100 acute patients (equivalent to current provision) with administration, education and staff support facilities.
- There are no statutory or legal requirements to prevent the listed buildings being converted to residential accommodation to give them a viable and appropriate new use and the removal of lesser historic buildings.
