Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust runs Basingstoke, Andover and Winchester hospitals Hampshire Hospitals Trust could make millions of pounds from selling land it owns, figures reveal. NHS Digital data shows Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has identified three sites it could sell for an estimated £6.5 million. The potential sites are a plot at Andover Health Centre (all or part of the site), one at North Hampshire Hospital (a car park or helipad) and a further site at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (a residential area, including staff accommodation). All three sites have been identified as having potential to be declared surplus to requirements, subject to a disposal strategy being developed.
YOU may pass them on a Covid walk without realising what they are. They look like perfectly normal houses – even fine ones – but they were built with unconventional materials. These are the numerous houses made of chalk. There are many examples in Hampshire, especially in and around the Test Valley and between Andover and the Salisbury Plain. They include Rookwood School in Andover, which was built as a fine gentleman’s residence and Thimble Hall, Quarley, originally a pair of cottages. A fine example once stood where the Royal Hampshire County Hospital was extended in the 1980s. Many existing houses in the Orams Arbour and St Cross areas of Winchester are also made of chalk, excavated from local railway cuttings. And yet from the outside you would never know it.
There have been increases in three areas in the week to Sunday March 7:
Winchester West, three cases, up one;
Winchester North and Sparsholt, five cases, up two;
Whiteley, Knowle and Wickham, four cases, up one. For the first time in many months no area of the Winchester district is above the national average for Covid cases. Across the NHS in Hampshire only three deaths have been reported today: one each in Hampshire Hospitals that includes the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and in Portsmouth and Southampton. The number of patients who have died since the start of the pandemic is 1,856, with 436 in HHFT.
Hampshire Hospitals Trust could make millions of pounds from selling land it owns, figures reveal. NHS Digital data shows Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has identified three sites it could sell for an estimated £6.5 million. The potential sites are a plot at Andover Health Centre (all or part of the site), one at North Hampshire Hospital (a car park or helipad) and a further site at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (a residential area, including staff accommodation). All three sites have been identified as having potential to be declared surplus to requirements, subject to a disposal strategy being developed. All sites earmarked for disposal sit on a total area of around 1.26 hectares and could accommodate 25 new homes.