Council says it is set to give proposals approval

Plans to build a new 拢220m children鈥檚 hospital in Cambridge have moved a step forward after the city council gave them the thumbs-up this week.

It said it had 鈥榬esolved to award consent鈥� for the scheme set to be built on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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How the proposed hospital will look

It will look after children from across the east of England 鈥� including Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Drawn up by Hawkins Brown and White Arkitekter, other consultants working on the plans include project and cost manager Turner & Townsend and engineer Ramboll.

The scheme will run across 35,000 sq m, including 5,000 sq m of research space. The plans also include details of possible future development for the hospital.

An outline business case for the scheme still needs to be approved by the Department of Health with local trusts working on the initiative including the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Around 拢20m of the cost is expected to be raised from land sales with construction work starting next year ahead of an opening in 2025.

Former health secretary Matt Hancock committed 拢100m of government funding for the project in 2018.

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