Last Wednesday 16th July there was a so called Consultation meeting on the proposed sell off of NHS land at St Anns Hospital to private developers .
People were left angry and feeling there were more questions than answers over exactly why the Mental Health Trust (BEH) have decided that 2/3rds of this land is “surplus to requirement ” when there are massive health inequalities and needs in East Haringey (see reports below)
Haringey Needs St Anns Hospital (HaNSAH) is fighting to stop this!
Come to the next Hansah meeting: Tuesday 22 JULY 2014 AT 730 AT THE TOLLGATE PUB Turnpike Lane N8
We have 11 DAYS TO SAVE ST ANNS! We now understand that Objections are written up for the Planning Sub Committee around 1 August 2014 -so thats 11 Days time from tomorrow.
We need to act now…….HANSAH meeting is on Tuesday 22 JULY 2014 AT 730 AT THE TOLLGATE PUB Turnpike Lane N8
Things are really telescoping! We have been informed that if we want to get a meaningful hearing for our Objection to BEHs plan then we need to do it by 1 AUGUST 2014! – Not Mid September as per the consultation meeting —so 11 Days away!
There is a Pre application Planning Meeting on 28th July 2014 at the Civic Centre – so we plan to protest there .http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/housing_and_planning/planning-mainpage/applications/planning_sub_committee.htm#pre-application_briefing_to_planning_committee
We have talked about how to object to planning applications as we have member whos had some experience of this( at Kings X .) We are contacting an ex GP and member of Medical Practitioners Union for advice/help . We will talk to Solicitors Leigh Day who have given legal advice for Lewishams Hospital campaign/court case and approached Our Tottenham for help and support.
So if anyone has any more ideas on how to campaign on this and how to frame the Objection then please bring them along
So. see you at ………..22 JULY 2014 730 AT THE TOLL GATE PUB Turnpike Lane N8
Rod, Member of HaNSAH
Tollgate Location: http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-toll-gate
Friday Jul 18 Haringey Independent Report
Protesters unhappy with the sale of land around St Ann’s Hospital.
Protesters unhappy with the sale of land around St Ann’s Hospital gathered outside a consultation meeting last night. Members of Haringey Needs St Ann’s Hospital (HNSAH) waved placards outside a meeting at Chestnuts Community Centre in St Ann’s Road.
The hospital site is currently owned by Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust (BEHMHT), which wants to gain planning permission to sell two thirds of the land to a housing developer. But campaigners say new facilities are desperately needed, and that mental health provision must be increased. They claim the trust has not carried out a proper assessment of the area’s healthcare needs, and are calling on BEHMHT to expand the hospital instead of selling the land.
Hansah Report from Harringay On Line 17/7/14:
There were more questions than answers at the packed but ultimately frustrating St Anns “Consultation” meeting on 16 July.
There was lots of passionate and concerned questioning from members of public and hospital users floor about health,the housing on the site , the impact on local schools etc countered by bland, bureaucratic or evasive answers from the BEH/Planning bureaucrats!
Im from a Haringey Needs St Anns Hospital group so I will concentrate on health. We would welcome other comments about what you felt about this “consultation”meeting.
People there wanted to know what evidence was used to show that the site was surplus to requirements in an area of high health inequalities. Why there was no new services like an Urgent care centre or a much needed GP surgery included in the plans to counter these inequalities.
What planning for health has been made for the future?.Why weren’t the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)who control the financing of local services there to answer questions ? If mental health is already oversubscribed as a patient reported why aren’t more acute wards being built and much needed recovery house places made available? BEH said that if services like a GPs surgery was needed there was space there –though they might have to knock down a building to construct that. That’s like saying if we get more patients at our A&E in future we’ll bolt on more wards to the Department!
The much trumpeted modern en suite facilities in mental health were not as important to a patient as access to a therapist and her concerns about the future.
There appeared a very “not me guv” approach from BEH. They could only put the small amount of services on the site because that’s the only money thats available from selling off Our NHS land for housing with no guarantee of how much will be so called “affordable”. Its all the Councils or the CCG s responsibility. That’s not good enough when there are obvious health needs in the Borough especially with 10,0000 new homes being built in East Haringey.
So we are calling for the Council/BEH/The CCG to do a Health Needs Assessment – a health check – before this plan goes through .
What You Can Do
Even though the consultation officially closes in 2 days time (!) -who was informed ?–you can object but as soon as possible but at least by 1 August 2014 to the Planning Sub Committe who decide on St. Anns Future. If you want better hospital facilities at St Anns have your say !
Plans are can be found here
http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=274419
Under “the New St Anns DAS” pdfs
Objections are made via at http://haringey.gov.uk/application_comments
Who are Hansah?
www.facebook.com/HaringeyNeedsStAnnsHospital
haringeyneedsstannshospital@gmail.com.
HaNSAH is a group of local residents who are calling for a halt to the plans to sell off NHS land at St Ann’s Hospital to property developers and demanding improved and integrated healthcare facilities that will meet the needs of the people in Haringey now and for the foreseeable future.