The deputy chief executive of Alder Hey hospital has apologised to the community for delays in handing back green space used to site the new medical centre.
In 2015, the specialist children’s hospital opened its new healthcare campus on land within Springfield Park resulting in green space being lost in the community. As part of a land exchange agreement with Liverpool Council made in 2012, Alder Hey is obligated to return 9.4 hectares of land back to council ownership but a deal has yet to be completed.
John Grinnell, deputy CEO and finance director at Alder Hey, issued a public apology for the ongoing delays to a packed meeting held at the hospital’s innovation building on Wednesday night. Mr Grinnell also confirmed the hospital trust will be spending more than £6m to restore the land to the community.
