Our Patch OCTOBER 2015
174 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 0RA
Tel. 020 8741 7171 • Fax 020 8741 7743
DX 32750 Hammersmith 2 • Email [email protected]
Open 9.00am to 5.00pm
Buying or selling in
Hammersmith or Chiswick?
Let us do the groundwork.
By using a local solicitor, you’ll have
peace of mind knowing that you
can just walk in for more immediate
and personal service than that
available online.
It also means that we provide
everything you’d expect from a full
legal practice, including:
Will preparation
Probate
Empty Royal Masonic Hospital in Ravenscourt
Park is granted a new lease of life from 2017
Competitive
rates
Will contesting
Dispute resolution
Family law
Business law
Personal injury
Call or visit today and let us sweat the detail
while you kick back and enjoy the World Cup.
WHAT THE DOCTOR
ORDERED
The Royal Masonic Hospital
of 1933. Part of the site was
re-developed into impressive
new flats, pictured above
Funding
options
T
he art deco Hammersmith
hospital which treated
8,000 wounded servicemen
during the Second World
War is to reopen as a cancer
specialist unit.
A £150million scheme is underway
to convert the 1930s Royal Masonic
Hospital building, mothballed since
2006, into the privately run London
International Hospital.
It will be the first hospital to offer
proton beam therapy, a type of
radiotherapy not currently available
on the NHS, which can treat complex
cancers in children.
The 150-bed hospital is due to open
in 2017, creating up to 2,000 jobs.
A year after its opening in 1933
alongside Ravenscourt Park, the Royal
Masonic won the Royal Institute of
British Architects’ top design medal.
It was converted to military use
during the Second World War, treating
more than 8,000 wounded officers.
Grade II-listed, the building was sold
off in 1996 and reopened two years
later as an independent hospital called
The Stamford. In May 2002 it returned
to the NHS as the Ravenscourt Park
Hospital… but lack of patient numbers
forced closure in 2006.
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Now it is to be the first UK hospital
run by healthcare giant VPS Healthcare,
with the Mayor of London describing
the news as a ‘tremendous vote of
confidence in London’s thriving life
sciences sector’.
Meanwhile, developers Linden
Homes took over part of the site –
now called Ashlar Court – which
served as the living quarters for the
hospital’s nurses. Last year the site was
transformed into blocks of one, two
and three-bedroom flats and one and
two-bedroom detached houses, which
retain the coveted historical details of
the building.
St Peter’s Church of England
Primary School
Raising funds for Friends of St. Peter’s
Thursday 12 November, 7.30-10.30pm
St Peters School, St Peters Road, Hammersmith W6 9BA
Ticket prices £25.00 including complimentary drinks and canapés
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