Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has taken the next pivotal step in its plans for a new hospital by inviting people to attend public engagement drop-in events across the city as part of its work to secure full planning consent.
The drop-in events are being held at locations across Leeds, starting on Monday 13 January 2025 in the main entrance reception area of the Jubilee Wing at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI), and will take place at the hospital and community venues over the next six weeks. The new hospital for Leeds is one of the most important developments in the city for a generation with far-reaching benefits for staff, patients, communities and the economy.
Patients, families and local communities are invited to take part in the engagement activity and show their support for the new state-of-the-art hospital by accessing information on-line or by attending a drop-in event where they can find out more about the urgent need for the hospital and support the Trust’s plans to secure detailed and full planning consent.
Staff and information stands will be available at venues across the city from Monday 13 January 2025 to Friday 21 February 2025 where members of the public can obtain updates about the Trust’s plans as part of the process to secure detailed and full planning consent. In addition to staff and information stands being regularly located at the Jubilee Wing building entrance and Clarendon Wing building entrance at the Leeds General Infirmary site, staff and information stands will be available at:
- Thurs 16 Jan, 12-5pm Pudsey Leisure Centre, Market Place, Pudsey, LS28 7BE
- Tues 21 Jan, 12-5pm Armley Leisure Centre, Carr Crofts, Armley, LS12 3HB
- Thurs 30 Jan, 1-5pm Holt Park Leisure Centre, Holtdale Approach, Adel, LS16 7RX
- Tues 4 Feb, 1-5pm Little London Community Centre, Oatland Lane, Woodhouse, LS7 1HF
- Mon 10 Feb, 12-5pm Morley Leisure Centre, Queensway, Morley, LS27 9JP
- Thurs 13 Feb, 1-5pm The Old Fire Station, Gipton Approach, Gipton, LS9 6NL
- Weds 19 Feb, 3-7pm Wetherby Library, Westgate, Wetherby, LS22 6LL
- Fri 21 Feb, 11am-3pm Kirkgate Market, Vicar Lane, Leeds, LS2 7HY
Further information is available by visiting our webpage: www.leedsth.nhs.uk/about/future/hospitals-future/public-engagement/
Mike Bacon, Director of the Building the Leeds Way Programme and New Hospital Project at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said: “This is a significant and positive step forwards in the delivery of our plans for a new hospital at Leeds General Infirmary. We want to offer our patients, their families and the communities we serve an opportunity to find out more about why a new hospital is urgently needed.
“Our plans for the new hospital are among the most advanced and ready-to-go schemes in the Government’s New Hospital Programme and we’re proud to be among the first Trusts to take this positive step forward towards securing full planning consent.
“We have been ready to complete our design and start construction of our new hospital for some time, yet we have faced national delays. Whilst currently these delays persist, we are proud to be in a strong position and with the right Government and national New Hospital Programme support we could commence construction within two years. We’ve completed many of our pre-construction projects with further projects underway and have a cleared construction site.
“We secured Outline Planning Consent in 2020 for our much-needed hospital at the Leeds General Infirmary and will now be engaging with the public to support an application to secure full planning consent for the design and plans of our new state-of-the-art hospital and ensure we remain ready to go.”
Plans to build a new, state-of-the-art hospital at Leeds General Infirmary will include a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital, a new adults’ hospital and one of the largest, single site maternity centres in the UK. Designed to be more sustainable, the new hospital will be more efficient and effective to run as well as reducing the Trust’s maintenance backlog. The neighbouring Innovation Village, which will be developed alongside the new hospital, will also deliver more than 4,000 new jobs and £13 billion of economic benefit as a go-to destination for research, health tech and digital innovation.