Healthcare services in the future need to address wellbeing and reduce where possible ‘social isolation’ and to enable this we need to consider a new model of care, where all partners will collaborate. As health care is become more integrated within the urban environment our site will fulfill a number of growing needs for community care. This will be physically separate but fully support the acute care provision.

A mixed-use fabric will be created with offices, ‘Care Square’, research and other service and knowledge based economies related to the medical sector. Housing will also be provided.

The masterplan will provide a high quality public realm of urban spaces - courts, streets and parks - that promote more sustainable living with the health benefits of green environments. This will encourage exercise and allow people to walk and reflect, which may form part of their treatment rather than having counselling in a stale room.

The plan optimizes the steeply sloped site and the subsequent multiple levels to create micro-climates, give character to terraces gardens and parks, hide car parking, give clear access to different parts of mixed use buildings and deliver density at the bottom of the slope without onerous impact on the skyline.