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20 minutes ago, sedith said:

Isn't the site owned by the NHS. It was once said it was a project for a new hospital, the Southern General? What happened to that idea. It would be ideal, on the ring road, good access. Opposite Herdings Park Tram stop?

but surely that would be a useful and sensible use of the land? and the chances of that are???

 

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24 minutes ago, sedith said:

Isn't the site owned by the NHS. It was once said it was a project for a new hospital, the Southern General? What happened to that idea. It would be ideal, on the ring road, good access. Opposite Herdings Park Tram stop?

Perfect place for a hospital and they said years ago that we were going to get one for Sheffield south.

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I thought they'd built a shopping centre on it?

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Owned by the council. They bought it off Homes England some years ago. It’s a future housing site 

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we need a southern hospital,  and bojo said he wants to build them,but i doubt we will get one

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On 06/01/2022 at 18:32, Fredderick said:

Owned by the council. They bought it off Homes England some years ago. It’s a future housing site 

Affordable housing I trust?? Where I live, 200k is looked on as affordable, yeh right.

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On 06/01/2022 at 17:45, Organgrinder said:

Perfect place for a hospital and they said years ago that we were going to get one for Sheffield south.

That was proposed back in the 70's when Sheffield had three district health authorities, each proposed to have their own DGH - north (NGH), central (Hallamshire) and south (Norton).

 

Soon afterwards central and south were amalgamated and the plan was shelved - population of Sheffield (now 590k) not big enough to warrant three DGH's - eg Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster have one each to serve a population of  between 250k (Barnsley) and 310k (Doncaster).

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Instead of a hospital, what about building a council/NHS run convalescent home to free up hospital beds. Badly needed apparently as many beds are tied up with people recovering but not well enough to go home. Keeping it in council/nhs control means they can access convalescent beds quickly and easily as need arises instead of having to wait for overworked social workers etc to do all the necessary hunting around for places in private care homes, find the funding and do all the paperwork which takes months. Also probably a lot cheaper with funding for care home places coming in at an average of £1,000 a week.

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Didn't this land used to be used by unaficial driving instructors ie family members/freinds giving first time driving lessons, getting them used to the feel of a car without using the public highways. Sure Ive heard Norton areodrome get a mention at some time. :huh:

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1 hour ago, PRESLEY said:

Didn't this land used to be used by unaficial driving instructors ie family members/freinds giving first time driving lessons, getting them used to the feel of a car without using the public highways. Sure Ive heard Norton areodrome get a mention at some time. :huh:

Used to be a driver training centre where you take your kids and teach them the basics. There was a circuit of roads, a roundabout I think also.

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17 minutes ago, Bargepole23 said:

Used to be a driver training centre where you take your kids and teach them the basics. There was a circuit of roads, a roundabout I think also.

Yes I thought so.  A good idea,  it gives nervous newbies chances to make mistakes with causing accidents with other drivers.

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