New Medical Centre Gets Green Light

15.05.2009 - New Medical Centre Gets Green Light

A NEW medical centre for Scartho has been given the go-ahead by planners.
And as part of the two-storey development in Springfield Road, the village will benefit from a new community centre.
Work is due to start at the end of the summer to demolish the existing Scartho Village Community Centre to make way for the new £4.5m surgery and pharmacy.
Catering initially for 10,000 patients, the centre will house nine GPs and a total of 74 staff, with the number of patients expected to increase to 15,000.
Leeds-based One Medical Ltd was yesterday granted permission by North East Lincolnshire Council's planning committee on the condition a new community centre is built in the village.
A temporary community centre will be built on land at the rear of the planned surgery, while the new centre could be built on the site of the existing village surgery in Waltham Road, members heard.
Another condition was that One Medical agreed to restore the land at the rear, currently used by Grimsby Rugby Club for mini-rugby, into a playing field.
Dr Paul Twomey, one of the GPs who will be based in the centre, said he was pleased with the decision.
He said: "We are delighted we are going to get to create a community resource for the area."
Earlier he told the planning committee the existing surgery was 35 years old and since it opened services had expanded and the number of staff had trebled.
He said: "Our building constrains the service we can provide and develop further."
The medical centre will also be served by 78 car parking spaces, 20 of those for staff, with yellow lines installed along a stretch of Springfield Road in a bid to ease potential congestion.
Principal planning officer Phil Wallis warned the development would add to traffic volume and create delays at the Waltham Road junction.
Ward councillor David Hornby (Con, Scartho) said: "This will be a significant investment into Scartho and bring more benefits."
Coun John Colebrook (Con, Humberston and New Waltham) said: "I welcome the development, but parking concerns me. People park in the area for a full day and get the bus into town."
Criticising the design, Coun Mick Burnett (Lab, Croft Baker) said: "Looking at the side elevation, it looks to me like a prison."
He warned there would also be an impact on the village's two pharmacies.
However, Mr Wallis said Scartho's pharmacists will be able to bid for the contract at the new surgery.

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