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Market engagement and masterplan for Leeds’s Innovation Village
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, in partnership with Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority, have announced ‘a significant new stage’ in the development of the city’s Innovation Village and new hospital. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority is supporting a market engagement exercise with potential investors, developers, and occupiers – including leading suppliers to the Trust, on opportunities within the 12.5 hectare development site, to be completed
future development. With advice from KPMG,
the Trust is also pursuing ‘alternative delivery models outside of NHS capital budgets’ to bring forward new, fit-for-purpose clinical buildings and further develop the Innovation Village. The announcement comes as a new report from global commercial property
by the year-end. The findings will support a masterplan to consider short and medium-term development opportunities. Leeds City Council will develop clear guidance for the Innovation Village site to support its
firm, CBRE, dubs Leeds ‘a prime opportunity for open innovation and clustering’, with increasing venture capital activity within the region’s life sciences sector. The Trust says the announcement
supports the government’s recently unveiled 10 Year Health Plan for England, while aiming to deliver early economic benefits through the creation of highly skilled jobs and a pipeline of life sciences companies for the Innovation Village. The initiatives also maintain momentum for the new hospital and regeneration of Leeds city centre after national funding was delayed until 2030. Work is already under way on the
first phase, with the transformation of the historic Old Medical School into ‘a cutting-edge’ healthtech innovation hub in partnership with Scarborough Group International, a privately- owned regeneration specialist.
‘Pioneering’ Sheffield research and technology facility
Construction is underway on the National Centre for Child Health Technology (NCCHT) – a ‘pioneering’ £17 m research and technology centre on the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park that ‘will tackle some of the biggest challenges in children’s healthcare’. Henry Boot Construction will
deliver the NCCHT project in partnership with Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust – almost 150 years since both organisations were
founded in Sheffield.
Spanning an estimated GIA of around 43,000 ft2
, the NCCHT will
feature ‘state-of-the-art technology and modern facilities that will act as a beacon of excellence for the NHS’. It is targeting a BREEAM ‘Excellent’. Funded by the South Yorkshire
Mayoral Combined Authority, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity, and Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, the NCCHT will bring new healthcare technologies to the heart of
service, and care delivery for children and young people. Ruth Brown, CEO at Sheffield
Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Sheffield Children’s has come a long way since caring for 29 patients in
1876 from one building – our first year. Last year we provided over half a million patient contacts. The National Centre for Child Health Technology is a significant milestone for our 150th anniversary.”
August 2025 Health Estate Journal 19
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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