Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s proposed £21 m new unit for Children, Young People and Families has received planning permission from Nottingham City Council.
The development is to be built on the Trust’s vacant site on Mansfield Road in Nottingham, formerly known as The Cedars site. It will include a new 24-bed unit for children and young people who need support for their mental health needs, a specialist eight-bedded PICU, a new Mother and Baby Unit, and outpatient facilities for Perinatal Mental Health Services.
The site will also provide outpatient services for children and young people using Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and act as a ‘child and family friendly’ campus, with an education centre for young people away from their own schools while at the unit. The Trust has been working towards this development for some time, and says this approval is ‘a major step forward for the exciting and important facility for young people and their families’.
Extensive design meetings have taken place, with full involvement from the Adolescent Unit teams, Perinatal teams, and young people and their families who use these services. Gilling Dod Architects has produced designs which incorporate all their feedback.
The unit’s construction will be undertaken by the Trust’s P21+ partners, Kier Construction; the facility is expected to be completed by late 2017.