Campaigners who believe a new cancer hospital in Cardiff is being built in the wrong place say they are shocked to learn that no documentation exists relating to crucial meetings that took place eight years ago when the project was in its infancy.
A new Velindre Hospital is due to be built on green space in the north of the city known as the Northern Meadows. But local activists, as well as a large number of specialist doctors, argue that it would make better sense for clinical and environmental reasons to build the new cancer centre adjacent to the nearby University Hospital of Wales.
A spokeswoman for the Co-locate Velindre group said: “It’s undisputed that ‘clinical meetings and discussions’ in 2014 decisively shaped the direction of travel for cancer plans to serve the 1.6 million population of south east Wales. But these key deliberations are now shown to have lacked all official records and therefore any minutes, attendee lists or discussion reports.
