The project got the green light this week when Liverpool and Sefton Health Partnerships reached financial close for Mersey Care NHS Trust’s new specialist health facility.
The former Walton Hospital site will be transformed into a £28m new mental health in-patient facility providing 85 single occupancy bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms to facilitate best practice in modern mental health care.
Each of the five wards is supported by its own dedicated therapeutic and safe courtyard facilities as well as light, airy communal areas.
Bilfinger Project Investments and GB Partnerships are key players in the public private partnership between LSHP and Mersey Care NHS Trust and were at the heart of delivering the project to financial close .
John Doyle, Project Director at Mersey Care NHS Trust said: “Walton is the culmination of hard work, consultation and negotiation to create a facility at the leading edge of 21st Century mental healthcare provision. Critical to the process was aligning the development scheme with the affordability of the service model’.
The 60,000 sq ft building has been designed to be BREEAM Excellent rated.
They will be supported by a strong design team led by Medical Architecture and Arup who will provide engineering and ecological design services.
Robertson FM will provide facilities management services for the 30 year concession.