Image: Trinity building and Chapel Square
Background
Springfield University Hospital has provided mental health services on this site since 1840. Most of the previous mental health inpatient facilities were not designed with today’s needs in mind, many buildings were expensive to maintain and had forced the Trust to make compromises over the years to ensure high quality quality care for its patients and service users.
The Trust worked with the community, service users and local stakeholders since 2004 to transform the site and deliver new modern mental health inpatient facilities in a sustainable way for the NHS. In 2012, following extensive public consultation, the Springfield masterplan was approved and in 2022/2023 the hospital buildings (Trinity and Shaftesbury) were opened.
The plans have delivered new, state-of-the-art hospital buildings to ensure the Trust is at the forefront of pioneering new treatments, research and care.
The new mental health buildings were funded by disposing of those parts of the site no longer needed for healthcare and this land is being used to deliver a new community within the Springfield site.
The approved Springfield masterplan delivers:
New state-of-the-art inpatient mental health facilities (opened in 2022/2023)
Restoration of Grade II Listed buildings (on-going)
A new 32 acre public park (Park Area B open, with Park Area’s A and C opening in October 2024)
839 new homes across the site, including affordable homes
Land for the development of a new school
Significant contributions towards local infrastructure
