Hospital plans go up in smoke (From Barry And District News)

Hospital plans go up in smoke

AMBITIOUS plans to turn Sully Hospital into luxury flats have gone up in smoke.

The multi-million pound scheme was scrapped after developers failed to get a clinical waste incinerator moved from the site.

It was hoped Galliard Developments could start work as early as next month.

But failure to reach an agreement about the incinerator, which is run by Dalkia Utilities Services on a 17-year contract from Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, immediately halted the plans.

Managing Director of Galliard, Nick Tucker Brown said: "We had good relations with the incinerator company but failed to come to an agreement about moving the burner. "

He added: "It would have been a fantastic development and the best site in area.

There are wonderful views but I do not think people would want to live next to an incinerator.

I was bidding a lot of money to get this moved but it all came to nothing in the end."

Now, it is believed the Grade II listed building, which was once earmarked as an Asylum Seekers Centre, could be remarketed

Sully Community Councillor Ian Barlow, who has a long standing interest in the site, expressed his concern: "We hope this does not rekindle the Government's interest in the hospital.

But we have no information which has lead us to believe this is the case."

He added: "If the building goes on the open market with the condition that the incinerator remains, it could significantly reduce the market rate."

Vale Councillor for Sully and Lavernock, Anthony Ernest said: "It has to be very disappointing that the situation has not been fully resolved yet with the hospital.

That the development has fallen through it is a terrible shame.

"The TB hospital was an award-winning building when it was first built in the 1930's.

We do not want to see it fall into disrepair."