One of our followers was thrilled to witness another layer being installed by this massive crane, which she believed was for a new multi-storey car park at the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford.
They are getting on with what appears to be a multi-storey car park on the land adjacent to the incineration tower . Hopefully, it will ease the parking, as I believe (although not certain) that this will be the staff car park.
They were “craning in” another layer on top as I passed by today!!
They have also put a pedestrian crossing from that side into the back entrance.
Sorry, Christine – you can live in hopes that parking may become easier. Please take a look below for a glimpse of what the building will look like.
So, will parking there become even more of a premium?
Construction has begun on a new centre, which is expected to accommodate up to 7,000 additional patients annually.
In an update, the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust announced that the first of the 176 constructible modules that will make up the new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre (CASIC) has arrived on site.
It expects additional modules to arrive over the next few weeks, where construction workers alongside a 450-tonne crane will move and install them to create the new three-storey surgical facility.
Already the fourth largest cancer centre in the country, RSCH is set to grow even larger to help support the “increasing demand” for cancer surgeries in Surrey and the South East.
The new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre (CASIC) is to be constructed using pre-built modular units, which will be partly built in Hull before being transported to the Guildford hospital site.
It states that, through May and June, eight pre-built modules of the pre-fabricated structure will arrive at the site each day.
Once construction is finished next year, the Royal Surrey’s CASIC will boast six “cutting-edge” operating theatres, a recovery area, a short-stay ward and a post-anaesthetic care unit across a three-storey building.
The new centre will replace the Royal Surrey’s current surgical short stay unit, which has previously been described as “ageing” by the Trust.
In announcing the update on the centre, a spokesperson for the NHS Trust said:
“The first of the 176 modules that will make up the new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre (CASIC) at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust. has landed.”
Ah so much for the hope of a multi storey car park. 🙁 It certainly looks like one at the moment. What would we do without the Waverley Web to put us straight !!
Hopefully this new building will have its own car park 🤔
On the plus side, (ish) the main public car park has a new number plate recognition system – pay on your way out. No cheating possible! And easier than the previous system. All you need to do is find a place to park once in there – if you can’t find one so you either wait or drive out again at which point presumably you will get charged the minimum for your drive around?
Having walked past the empty shops in Brightwells demanded the obvious question why could they get it so wrong when so many warned against this planning folly? Surrey Hospital’s useful and functional construction delivers some hope amongst the entrenched planning gloom. However the emissions from the tower should have received a development health risk assessment.