Delighted Wythall residents are watching their eagerly awaited state of the art new health centre beginning to take shape after years of delays.
Greswolde has begun work on the £1.4 million Wythall Lane Health Centre, Hollywood, some five years after it was decided that the old surgery needed replacing.
“We spent years looking for a suitable site as there were very few options in the area,” said Architect Phil Goode of Bundred & Goode.
“The old 70’s flat-roofed building is in a really dilapidated state – leaking and in a very bad state of repair, so something needed to be done urgently. After many false starts, at last we are now on site,” he said.
The state of the art new surgery will be sited on open ground behind the existing building and work will be done to improve the pathways and lighting around the site.
The medical team will enjoy first class accommodation which comprises on the ground floor five consulting rooms for doctors, three for nurses, a minor operations suite and admin and waiting rooms.
There will also be self-contained single storey accommodation for the Parish Council offices.
“At a public meeting four years ago some 600 people turned up and 99.9% of them were in favour of having a new surgery on this site. Now they won’t have too much longer to wait,” he added.
Building work is expected to be completed early in 2007.
The Professional team comprises: Architect Bundred & Goode of Halesowen, QS Paul Mantle Partnership of Halesowen, Engineer MR Valand of Wednesbury, M&E Consultants Mansfield Ravenhall of Birmingham.
 

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