New plans unveiled for downsized Lauder health centre
Published 15 Jan 2012 09:30
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A NEW children's play park will be built in Lauder before work gets underway on the Royal Burgh's proposed new health centre.
NHS Borders made the proposals in a new planning application received by Scottish Borders Council on Wednesday last week.
It plans to build a new GP practice, an 18 space car park and an ambulance turning bay, on the site of the current play park next to Crofts Road, Lauder.
However, despite being smaller than originally planned, the building - which, it is envisaged, will replace the current GP practice in Factors Park - has been designed to ensure that there is space for expansion on the first floor, without the need for any additional land.
A statement from Aitken Turnbull, architects of the new plans, said: "There have been a number of investigations into providing the town of Lauder with a new health centre. This involved options appraisals of a number of sites around the town, which, with the exception of this play park site, were ultimately found to be unsuitable.
"There has been a previous Planning Application for a two practice centre on the proposed site."
But it added: "The current proposals supersede that scheme with a smaller, single practice centre."
The new plans have been submitted after Scottish Borders Council agreed to sell the greenfield site in Crofts Road, which includes part of the public park owned by the town's common good fund, to the health board for £250,000 - £180,000 of which will be spent on developing the replacement play park.
This article appeared in Border Telegraph 17 Jan 12
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