A £200m state-of-the-art care centre will create up to 1,000 Hampshire jobs
Thursday 3 December 2009 11:41 AM
A £200m state-of-the-art care centre will create up to 1,000 Hampshire jobs.
The owners of the former Royal Haslar Hospital in Gosport say their project will be the first of its kind and include specialist dementia units and cancer rehabilitation units offering care that cannot be found elsewhere in the UK.
A veterans’ village will also be part of the development on the 60-acre site. The Ministry of Defence has just sold the old hospital site to Our Enterprise Haslar.
Boss Charles Green told the Daily Echo: “We are going to bring the top experts in to make sure that we are leading the way in care, educating people, providing jobs and giving the Gosport community something that will be sustainable beyond the next ten or 20 years. We look forward to developing a scheme and bright future for this historical site for the next 250 years and being a beacon of light in the care industry.”
The social enterprise company unveiled this vision to Gosport Borough Council last night.
health spokesman Peter Edgar said: “We wanted this to be a site that continued to offer care, create jobs and train people.
“This is very encouraging, it looks like they want it to keep doing what it has been doing. This is a very exciting project.”
It has taken two years to develop the scheme but bosses believe, because the site was military and most of the infrastructure is in place, an education block could be open within a year.
The former hospital site is designated in the local plan for health and community use.
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