The chair of Alder Hey hospital’s board has issued an apology for the “frustration and anger” caused as the local community waits for green space to be handed back.
Almost eight years ago, 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, with one phase already completed.
Dame Jo Williams, chair of the Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust board, said she recognised it had been a “long and extended period of time” for the full park to be handed back to the community. John Grinnell, deputy CEO and finance director at Alder Hey, outlined progress on the project to date.
