ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
Stakeholder engagement is a major part in design
As part of the wider strategic health estates initiative, international design practice, Ryder Architecture, is leading the transformative approach at Highgate in London for Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I), which recently won the DiMHN 2021 Service-User Engagement Award. Mark Carter, Partner, and Victor Muniz, Architectural director at the firm, explain the planned consolidation of the new facility, and their approach to 21st-century mental health design.
Currently, C&I has around 30 sites across its borough, including inpatient beds at St Pancras Hospital and the Highgate Mental Health Centre, and several community facilities, which are not designed to meet modern health and safety needs; nor do they provide an effective therapeutic environment. St Pancras Hospital was once a Victorian workhouse, and the buildings were never designed for mental healthcare. Many bedrooms are still shared, and access to fresh air from wards is very limited. Significant investment would be needed to maintain and upgrade the buildings to meet modern standards, and even then, facilities would not meet the requirements that both the Trust and design team have for service-users, and those set out by the Department of Health and Social Care. The solution, the St Pancras
Transformation Programme, focuses on supporting delivery of the Trust’s clinical strategy, by providing fit-for-purpose, accessible, and therapeutic environments for mental health recovery. A new hospital in Highgate will replace the ageing inpatient wards at St Pancras, alongside redeveloped community sites at Lowther Road, Islington, and Greenland Road, Camden, while a third community facility will be created at St Pancras. The Trust is releasing portions of land at its St Pancras
The streetscape of Dartmouth Park Hill benefits from a tree-lined frontage along much of its length, and here, a new ramped route has been created to provide access for all to the hospital campus.
Hospital site to generate the funds required to build the new hospital, and to invest into upgrading its community facilities. Community sites will be transformed to create integrated community mental health centres, which will support people to live well in their communities through access to mental health, physical health, and other recovery services, under one roof.
Creating a single campus C&I identified land next to the Whittington Hospital, opposite its existing Highgate Mental Health Centre, to build a brand new 78-bed hospital. Once complete, all wards from St Pancras Hospital will move to Highgate to create a single inpatient campus. Moving to a site that is co-located with existing services at the Highgate Mental Health Centre (Highgate West),
Seating is provided on planter walls and individual units, creating places to meet, rest, or socialise, located in sunny, shaded, and sheltered areas.
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The landscape scheme has been developed to create quality public realm spaces around and between the buildings.
OCTOBER 2021 | THE NETWORK
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