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Green light at planning committee for Great Ormond Street Hospital’s redevelopment plans

Acting on behalf of Great Ormond Street Hospital and SISK, we have secured resolution to grant planning permission from Camden Council’s planning committee for a new Children’s Cancer Centre.

We provided Planning, Strategic Communications and Heritage, Townscape & Landscape services for the new clinical building, on Great Ormond Street itself, which will be dedicated to caring for children and young people from across the UK and beyond with rare and difficult-to-treat cancers.

The need for the new centre is pressing: last year 1,200 children visited GOSH to have specialist treatment for cancer, instances of cancer continue to increase, and childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death in children aged 1-14 years old. 

Matthew Shaw, Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: 

“We are delighted that Camden Council’s planning committee resolved to grant planning permission for our plans for our new Children’s Cancer Centre.

“This is an important step towards more children and young people being able to receive care and treatment in the best possible environment. This new centre will put us in a strong position to build on the decades of work undertaken by our clinicians and the researchers from our academic partner ICH to deliver the very best, kindest and effective treatments for cancer.”

The existing cancer facilities were built many years ago and do not reflect modern healthcare. The new Children’s Cancer Centre will mean children are treated together, in a bespoke environment, designed to meet their needs, with a focus on play and physical and educational activities alongside medical treatment.

Co-location with ICH and other research partners will allow GOSH to get new cancer treatments to patients rapidly.

The new centre will include cancer wards, cancer day care, new theatres and intensive care units meaning the specialist teams needed for patients can all work more closely together. The building will also house new imaging equipment and a specialised chemotherapy pharmacy will also be created to ensure GOSH keeps pace with world leading cancer care practice. Alongside the clinical services, the new building will provide the opportunity to create a new entrance for the hospital and to create a new school for the children who come to GOSH.

The deconstruction and construction programme will take around three years to complete. 

10 February 2023