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PATIENT CARE


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For more than 30 years, Birmingham’s Edgbaston was home to the world-famous BBC Pebble Mill Studios. Now, the site – which is land-owned by Calthorpe Estates – is being transformed into a 27 acre world class medical destination featuring leading hospitals, healthcare centres and the latest cutting-edge medical facilities. The Clinical Services Journal speaks to Calthorpe Estates’ director of development, Ralph Minott, to find out more.


In the late 1960s, the BBC took a lease from Calthorpe Estates and settled into Edgbaston creating a regional centre of broadcasting excellence attracting talent from across the globe. The site quickly became known as the Pebble Mill Studios and was responsible for programmes such as Pebble Mill at One, The Archers and Top Gear.


2004 marked the end of this era when the studio closed, moving its radio and television operations to the Mailbox in Birmingham city centre. In 2005 the BBC site was demolished, and family- owned investor and developer Calthorpe Estates took back control of the land lease. The vision was then, as it is now, to develop a world class research and development facility for the medical and healthcare industry. “Over the last 15 years the Calthorpe Estate has created Edgbaston Medical Quarter (EMQ), a rapidly growing healthcare and life sciences community, which is supported by internationally-renowned training and educational facilities,” said Ralph Minott,


director of development as Calthorpe Estates. “Within this area, Pebble Mill has an enviable positioning as it’s only one mile from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and the University of Birmingham. It’s also close to other healthcare facilities such as the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and the UK’s only National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). After the BBC moved out, redefining the site’s focus around medical excellence became a natural and obvious strategy for us.” Just 90 minutes from London by train with direct international flights to all major global destinations, Birmingham’s Edgbaston Medical Quarter has witnessed a healthcare revolution and is now home to Europe’s largest centre for focused clinical trials and 64% of the region’s healthcare economy. Currently there are more than 180 medical organisations, 80 hospitals and specialist care centres, and 44 GP clinics and routine care facilities, along with 23 training facilities. The area is also home to over 550 medical


companies, more than any other region in the country, and is fast developing an international reputation for medical excellence. The Calthorpe Estate covers 640 hectares in Edgbaston and the 27-acre regenerated Pebble Mill Park lies to the southwest of the Estate. Ralph noted: “Pebble Mill almost never realised its ambition of becoming a healthcare destination at all, as originally the plan was to turn it into a Science and Technology Park. “This was an ambition of the


government’s redevelopment agency for the West Midlands at the time, Advantage West Midland (AWM), and Birmingham City Council (BCC) with the aim of realigning the skills being lost from the industry. No science and technology user was attracted to the site, so in 2010 Calthorpe Estates sought planning permission to turn Pebble Mill into a 150,000ft2


mixed-


medical use facility instead.” “Within six months of the permission, we found ourselves in discussion with Circle Health for a new Private Hospital to their expanding portfolio ambition. Soon after we were approached as an option site for the planned relocation of Birmingham’s Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry, from its home of over 50 years in the centre of town.” “We were ultimately successful in securing both commitments in November 2011, having obtained a second 150,000 square foot mixed-medical planning permission that would embrace the Dental Hospital option.”


Dental hospital facility


The £50 million Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry was the first facility to open at Pebble Mill, opening to students and patients in April 2016. It is the only integrated, stand-alone dental hospital and school to be built in the UK for almost 40 years.


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