The four-week non-statutory public consultation on plans to build the new £1.5bn Leighton Hospital has now come to an end, with a big multi-storey car park in the pipeline.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is thanking everyone who participated and provided feedback.

During the past few weeks, the Trust hosted three in-person events and a virtual session where people were able to learn about the plans and speak directly to the Trust's Healthier Futures programme team, which is delivering this ambitious scheme.

The feedback received will now be reviewed and included as part of the outline planning application for the new hospital and supporting infrastructure.

The outline planning application for the new Leighton Hospital and supporting infrastructure will be submitted in December 2025 (Photo: Jonathan White).

These will be submitted to Cheshire East Council in December.

The application will include the following:

• Around 107,500sqm of new replacement hospital floorspace in the form of a six-storey hospital building (plus rooftop plant, max. 40m height), alongside ancillary buildings to accommodate the Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD) and new energy infrastructure
• A new Ambulatory Cancer Care (ACC) Centre (plus rooftop equipment, max.20m height) providing an additional 5,000sqm of floorspace
• Retention, alteration and/or expansion of four existing hospital buildings to work alongside the new facilities
• New vehicular access routes from both Middlewich Road and Flowers Lane, separating blue light and service vehicles from the main hospital access points
• A new Multi Storey Car Park comprising up to 1,000 spaces (max. 22m height) alongside new and/or reconfiguring of existing surface car parking for staff and patients

The Trust will also submit a separate detailed application for new surface-level car parking to the south of the current site. This includes the following:  

• Provision of 310 new car parking spaces
• New vehicular and pedestrian access from Smithy Lane
• Landscaping, drainage infrastructure and associated works

The Trust's Board Senior Responsible Officer for Leighton New Hospital Programme, Russ Favager, said: "On behalf of the Trust, I am very grateful to everyone who attended the events and provided their valuable feedback.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is thanking everyone who participated and provided feedback, including at Crewe Market Hall (Photo: MCHT).

"This is a shared journey, and we've always been committed to listening to our communities. This is why we will continue to engage with people on a variety of matters, including how staff and the public will want the new hospital to look and feel.

"Full details about future engagement sessions will be published on the Healthier Futures microsite."

The proposed new Leighton will be one of the most digitally advanced hospitals in the UK. If plans are approved, it will be built on the land purchased in 2024 to the north of the existing hospital site in Crewe.

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