Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

We have been overseeing the phased redevelopment of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in Bloomsbury, London since 2014.

GOSH has experienced significant growth of services, and with BDP’s support has undertaken a comprehensive examination of options to redevelop its main site, whilst maintaining its ongoing healthcare services.

BDP produced a Development Control Plan (DCP) for the estate in 2015. The hospital is in a very constrained, sensitive setting and adjacent to the Bloomsbury Conservation Area which provides planning and design challenges.

BDP is currently designing a new Cancer Centre with a new main entrance to the hospital as part of Phase 4 of the masterplan redevelopment. Improving outcomes for cancer is a major priority for the UK and paediatric cancer is assuming increasing importance.

The proposed Cancer Centre will create a national resource for children with rare and difficult-to treat cancers through holistic, personalised and coordinated care across the child’s entire cancer journey. The Cancer Centre will also provide an opportunity to give greater expression to GOSH’s identity along its principal frontage, providing an enhanced and more welcoming experience for patients and users and to create a new public face for the hospital.

BDP's Town Planning team has provided strategic planning advice and direction for the development of the estate’s DCP, and has subsequently been successful in a number of planning applications on the hospital site to facilitate ongoing healthcare but also decant options for the new cancer centre. We act as the Trust’s planning advisor for the new Cancer Centre; embedded within the client team, we are helping to shape the proposals to manage out planning risk, and build the case for the significant redevelopment of the hospital.