Extend King George Hospital - Don't build housing on "surplus land"

While no Redbridge Councillors came out to support plan to extend King George Hospital per the letters below, the following signatories did sign, which is very welcome Bob Archer, Scott Jones, East London Socialist Party branch secretary, RoseMary Warrington, Prospective Green Party candidate for Ilford South, Waltham Forest & Redbridge Green Party The work continues to persuade the main parties to support the plan to extend King George The letters are as follows For the Recorder: Dear Sir or Madam The 2010 NHS plan for closing King George A&E has a number of stages until the final closure. Some of these stages have already taken place at King George, such as closing some beds designed for emergency admissions and replacing them with rehabilitation beds. Another part of the 2010 plan at page 113 refers to "The delivery of the savings forecast will require a rationalisation of the King George Hospital site to make sure that the space vacated by the acute unit is eit...

I am encouraging local Councillors and activists to sign a letter to go to Recorder and Wanstead and Woodford Guardian for publication this week to ask the NHS to withdraw their plan to allow housing on "surplus" land on the King George site. The letters are as follows For the Recorder: Dear Sir or Madam The 2010 NHS plan for closing King George A&E has a number of stages until the final closure. Some of these stages have already taken place at King George, such as closing some beds designed for emergency admissions and replacing them with rehabilitation beds. Another part of the 2010 plan at page 113 refers to "The delivery of the savings forecast will require a rationalisation of the King George Hospital site to make sure that the space vacated by the acute unit is either used productively for an alternative used... estate rationalisation plan would need to be developed bringing together... parts of the King George Hospital site and buildings that can ...

BHRUT (Barking Havering & Redbridge University Hospital Trust) who own King George Hospital are under acute financial pressure per the link here: The cause of this is underfunding from central government. BHRUT statement on financial pressures In order to make up for this underfunding, BHRUT has been planning to sell "surplus" land on the King George Hospital site. In order to do this the local NHS has successfully approached Redbridge Council to take "surplus" land out of  the King George and Goodmayes hospital site to allow 500 units to be built. The current plan is at the bottom of this blog. More on this is at: Detail on plan to build housing on King George land I thank Dianna Sullivan to the key quote from one the documents at the link above dated 22nd November 2017. "BHRUT is committed to the delivery of the land allocated for development and looks forward to taking forward discussions with the London Borough of Redbridge, in conjunction ...

I sent the below to Councillors  in NE London. It did not work out, but I will keep going. Dear Councillors in Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge & Waltham Forest I write regarding the following: 1 - Why the Decision of Redbridge Council to decide to allow housing on so called “surplus land” on the King George Hospital site should concern all Councillors in North East London. The documents referenced below point to the plan to close King George A&E from 2010 as the rationale for the decision to build housing on "surplus" land. The legality of this plan has been called into doubt by a November Price Waterhouse Coopers Report report commissioned by the NHS which paused plans to close King George A&E in 2019 2 – Should you agree I would ask you to sign a press release to be published on 19thFebuary seeking the plan to build on “surplus” land on King George Hospital be referred to a Redbridge Council Working party chaired by Wes Streeting MP due to ...