Homes for historic hospital site
Between 90 and 100 luxury homes will be built on the grounds of a historic Black Country hospital building if planners give it the go-ahead, developers have revealed. Between 90 and 100 luxury homes will be built on the grounds of a historic Black Country hospital building if planners give it the go-ahead, developers have revealed. Bosses at David Payne Homes, which bought the last part of the giant former Corbett Hospital site in Amblecote earlier this year, said they were preparing to submit a planning application for homes. The Bromsgrove-based developers claim the scheme will give the area a "new lease of life". David Payne managing director Paul Cranidge said the old hospital site had now been vacant for two years and was in much need of regeneration. He said a planning application for "between 90 and 100" homes would be submitted. Read the full story in the Express & Star.
Bosses at David Payne Homes, which bought the last part of the giant former Corbett Hospital site in Amblecote earlier this year, said they were preparing to submit a planning application for homes.
The Bromsgrove-based developers claim the scheme will give the area a "new lease of life".
David Payne managing director Paul Cranidge said the old hospital site had now been vacant for two years and was in much need of regeneration.
He said a planning application for "between 90 and 100" homes would be submitted.
"We plan to rejuvenate the site of the old Corbett Hospital giving it a new lease of life," Mr Cranidge said.
"The development is likely to accommodate many of the larger superior properties that David Payne Homes has become renowned for, such as those currently under construction at our Stourbridge development, The Pedmore, on the site of the former Pedmore House Hotel in Ham Lane. With our homes we hope to invigorate the Amblecote community and compliment the modern facilities of the new NHS day centre next door."
The six acre derelict hospital site on Vicarage Road, has been closing down in phases since 2002 as the Dudley Group of Hospitals slowly decanted the facilities to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley.
The original Corbett Hospital building was formerly a house built in 1736.
It was reopened as a hospital in 1893 and named after Brierley Hill salt magnate John Corbett who funded much of its renovation and the equipment for the new hospital. It was once one of Dudley's main hospitals and had its own accident and emergency department used by thousands of people a year.
It services were downgraded in later years and when it closed in 2005 it was only being used an out-patient centre.
Since its closure two years ago, part of the old Corbett Hospital site has been used to build a new out-patient centre costing £10 million, which former PM Tony Blair visited earlier this year.
When the sale of the land went through bosses at the Dudley Group of Hospitals refused to reveal how much they got for the land.
But they did pledge it would all be ploughed back into improving patient care.
