Plans for former community hospital site approved

Plans for about 60 new homes at a former community hospital have been given the go-ahead.

On 30 January members of Wiltshire Council's eastern area planning committee granted planning permission for the redevelopment of the former Devizes Community Hospital on New Park Road.

The development will be contain 58 homes and a commercial united.

Planning permission was subject to a section 106 legal agreement between the council and NHS Property Services, which has also now been completed.

The site was no longer needed by the NHS following the relocation of services to the new integrated care centre on Marshall Road, the Local Democracy Reporting Service was told.

NHS Property Services decided the old community hospital was "surplus to the requirements of the local NHS".

According to the plans, submitted back in 2022, it said the proposal was aimed at being part of "the successful regeneration of the wider wharf area".

"We are mindful of the contribution the historic red brick hospital buildings fronting New Park Road make to the character of the Devizes Conservation Area and we will retain and restore these as part of the development proposals," it added.

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