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The Government has bought a property at the Parade for £900,000 as part of its plan to expand the hospital and create a new outpatients’ unit.
The ground floor of 4 Edward Place used to be the Autism Jersey shop and there are offices/consulting rooms at the back, which had permission for medical use.
In 2020, the Government signed a lease with the owner for use by the Health Department.
However, in a transaction registered in the Royal Court last week, the Government purchased the whole property – which was last sold in 2005 for £378,000 – from SBMB Holdings Limited.
Pictured: 4 Edward Place used to be the home of Autism Jersey's shop. (Google Maps)
The Government has already bought the former Stafford and Revere hotels of its arms-length social housing provider Andium Homes for £16m.
The island is now on its third set of plans to upgrade and replace the island’s health facilities in a decade.
It comes as the £2m demolition of unused and dilapidated buildings at Overdale began this week.
Pictured: The plan to expand the current General Hospital – the area including Edward Place can be seen in blue.
The site is the proposed location the island’s emergency and critical care units, as well as the majority of inpatient wards.
Planning applications are yet to be submitted for an expanded facility at the General Hospital and new inpatients unit at Overdale, however.
Previous plans included expanding the current General Hospital, and creating an all-in-one ‘health campus at Overdale – but both were thrown out as new governments came in.
Video: Infrastructure Minister Tom Binet on the demolition site at Overdale.
Infrastructure Minister Tom Binet said this week he was “hopeful” that the current ‘New Healthcare Facilities Programme’ would succeed, and that construction would be able to start on the acute hospital at Overdale by 2025 – if the States Assembly gives its backing to the vision next year.
The Overdale facility would be expected to open its doors by 2028, with the aim to complete the rest of the facilities by 2031.
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