Royal Marsden

The Royal Brompton Hospital is selling off part of their estate and the Royal Marsden Hospital would really like to get hold of one particular building, the Fulham Road Wing. This building sits right next to the Royal Marsden and would be perfect for this world class cancer facility to expand into.

Royal Marsden Briefing Paper:

The depth of feeling generated is demonstrated by this open letter from a concerned neighbour, Kim Howell.

Dear Neighbours,

As you may be aware, the Royal Brompton Hospital is planning a major redevelopment, including selling off a large part of their estate in order to raise money to consolidate and redevelop their Sydney Street premises.  The Royal Marsden Hospital has long had an interest in the Fulham Road hospital wing, which is just one portion of the Brompton’s extensive estate and sits between the Royal Marsden and its close academic partner, the Institute of Cancer Research (“the ICR”).

The Royal Brompton wants to redevelop the Fulham Road Wing solely for luxury residential use in order to maximise proceeds for their Foundation Trust.  As such, they (and the current Royal Borough “supplementary planning document” or “SPD”) have ignored the needs and repeated requests of the Royal Marsden to acquire the Fulham Road buildings so that they can expand their world-leading cancer research and treatment facilities (which are now at maximum capacity).  It is astonishing that the Royal Marsden is not mentioned anywhere in the SPD.

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