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Artist’s impression of Building 4 at Pebble Mill.
capacity will allow Circle to add on rehabilitation at Pebble Mill as well,” says Minott. The ‘stateof-the-art hospital’ will bring to Birmingham the high-quality care and excellent hospitality that Circle is known for in its existing hospitals in Bath, Reading and Nottingham. Circle Birmingham hospital will provide three operating theatres (expandable up to six), an endoscopy procedure room, and in-patient bedrooms, packed with the latest technology; along with the capacity to extend theatres and inpatient facilities as demand increases, Circle will now be able to add comprehensive rehabilitation facilities for patients with musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. “The continued growth of EMQ, and the wider healthcare and life sciences cluster in Birmingham mean interest in our site continues to increase, but where Pebble Mill’s location above all, and unrivalled proximity of its development opportunities to such a special healthcare cluster; the growth of skills, and ease for clinicians, noting the likes of QE Hospital Birmingham and University of Birmingham therein, crystallises its attraction. “At Plot 4, for our ambitious £26m Building 4 proposals to meet known occupational needs that we are in advanced discussions on, ignoring other medical specialist opportunities we’d like to try and find homes for, we now need a scheme of around 9,000sq.m, more than our
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5,000sq.m. original vision. “The last pieces of the Pebble Mill ‘jigsaw’ will feature medical and technology businesses that align themselves to the Pebble Mill catchment cluster, with one of the highest performing and proven international medical catchment reputations in Europe, for quality of care, information technology, clinical education and training and research, especially being a regional centre for cancer, and world-renowned for trauma care, and rehabilitation. “We have an ambition to see proton therapy treatment develop in the region, and believe Pebble Mill and EMQ can play a key role in this, as much as we believe we can offer expansion opportunities for the local NHS Foundation Trusts through our flexibility and simple land holding position. “Adjacent to Selly Oak we are hugely mindful of the dynamics that student land use outside the confines of the university campus plays, and for our approved schemes at Plot 6 Pebble Mill for student accommodation and important leisure amenities to the Pebble Mill, the need to manage these with the same attention that we place elsewhere on the estate, but we are proud of the Flood Mitigation Project that these uses have helped fund. “Within the River Rea Partnership, the jointly funded flood mitigation project with the environment agency is not just a great
example of partnership working, but much more about the genuine only means of funding the environment agency’s proposals to reduce the local Selly Park North catchment flooding in a realistic time frame. At a cost of some £4m, 50% of the funds had to be found from third party contributions. An opportunity to take a long term view, it saw Calthorpe Estates committing £2m in 2016 on the back of the future prospective value from the proposed student accommodation and leisure amenities, this enabled the EA to secure the project approval and the project is now well underway. “Pebble Mill resonates the huge pride we have at Calthorpe Estates, in reaching our 300th anniversary in 2017, proudly working with Birmingham City Council, who have both challenged and guided us to ensure at Pebble Mill we provide catchment solutions.” n
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