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A STATE-of-the-art inpatient mental health unit could be built at a new location on the Glan Clwyd Hospital campus, after planning permission for a preferred site was refused. In January, an application for Outline Planning Permission on a site to the south-west of the hospital’s grounds was rejected by Denbighshire County Council’s Planning Committee, who cited an unacceptable impact on local residents. The 64-bed unit would have provided a modern replacement for the hospital’s Abl...

A artistss impression of how the main entrance to the new Ablett unit will look Picture: Powell Dobson Architects (within planning docs - clear for use by all partners) Mental health patients in a building labelled “unfit for purpose” by a health watchdog will be safe despite outline planning permission being denied for its “flagship” replacement. A £64m replacement for Ysbyty Glan Clwyd’s Ablett mental health unit in Bodelwyddan would have contained 64 beds and taken inpatients ...

Updated A view of how the interior of the new building\s main entrance could look Picture: Powell Dobson Architects (within planning docs - clear for use by all partners) Outline planning permission to build a replacement for a “not fit for purpose” mental health unit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd has been refused by Denbighshire councillors – against officer recommendations. The idea would have seen a brand new 64-bed “state-of-the-art” mental health facility and multi storey car park bu...

AN APPLICATION that will see a new 64-bed mental health unit built at Glan Clwyd Hospital is to be considered by Denbighshire’s planning committee. The new multi-million pound facility, which also includes a multi storey car park, will be built at the rear of the hospital opposite the existing pathology department, on the former carpark. It will replace the care currently provided at the hospital’s Ablett Unit which is deemed ‘no longer fit for purpose’. Outline planning permiss...

Man who went into cardiac arrest after sustaining injury at mental health unit later died Ben Christopher Harrison was being treated at Ysbyty Glan Clwyds Ablett Unit prior to his death Updated Ysbyty Glan Clwyds Ablett Psychiatric Unit Sign up to our free newsletter for the top North Wales stories sent straight to your e-mail Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up now! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometim...

A look back at the top stories in 2020: THERE was no movement at Bodelwyddan Castle after 12 months on the market as “unresolved” financial issues meant the former tourist attraction had not been sold . The gothic revival style country house, set within 200 acres of mixed land and a two-bedroom house was put up for £1million. It came after Denbighshire County Council withdrew its £144,000 annual grant in 2017. The National Portrait Gallery closed its exhibition of 130 paintings and, a...