A PLANNING application for a new £150 million critical treatment hospital for north Hampshire has been submitted.
The hospital will be immersed into the surrounding countryside – a concept based on research evidence which shows the positive health benefits of having access to nature.
The plans include the planting of a new woodland, which will develop over time to form a copse, as well as landscaped courtyards and roof-top gardens.
Departments will be arranged around a series of overlapping tree-filled and colour-coded courtyards.
Stride Treglown submitted the planning application for the hospital, which will provide acute hospital services for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital will be on a 22-hectare greenfield site on the north side of the A30 near junction 7 of the M3.
An £18.5m cancer centre is also planned for the same site.
The application is expected to be decided in August, and if approved, building work is due to start next year.
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