A former GP surgery in Lake could become a house after doctors sold the building.
In a planning application to the Isle of Wight Council, applicant Mrs P. Nel is asking to change the use of the Lake branch of the Beech Grove Surgery, on Sandown Road, into a 3-bed home.
The GP surgery, which had another branch in Brading, shut in March last year with more than 4,500 patients moved to other practices, as the doctors handed back their contract to the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group.
The services were ended due to a failure to recruit GPs to the Island – despite a petition launched to save primary care outlets – and the significant costs to find other locations for the Lake branch.
With NHS England not taking ownership of the building, doctors sold the branch in December.
In planning documents, the building is described to be deteriorating rapidly as it has been vacant since March and not suitable for patient use as it would need a lot of modernisation to bring it up to current standards.
Plans indicate the front door of the building would be removed but the larger shop windows would remain.
To view the plans or comment on the application, 21/00123/FUL, you can view the council’s planning portal. Comments will be accepted until 5th March 2021.
Is Mrs P Nel related to the famous Kerr Nel?
Well that’s just nuts
Seriously, why is it so hard to get GPs (and teachers) to move to the Island? Not enough people buying private care/education?
probably because they are fed up with the endless stream of spongers, layabouts, sick notes and other burdens on their time and teachers are quitting the profession because they do not want to listen to the endless BS by parents of little snowflakes.
The mighty has spoken!
guess you are one of those whiners then jamie
The Island via our short sighted as ‘they’ will be gone’ c ou nc il receive payment for housing the cast offs via mainland equivilants.
So naturally the Islands lower end populace grows far more quickly, and then creates the type of person that professional people would choose, as they do, not to have on their ‘patient list’.
So until higher end, homes, not breeding hutches are built and filled then it will become ever more crowded with the lower elements causing the better people to avoid, as YOU would, IF given a choice HAD you not have been born here. For then the link is less easy to break.
utter drivel.
Doctors do not choose their patients. They are required to treat anyone and everyone who needs it.
Have you looked around the Island? massive numbers of second homes, the average house cost is £263,957. There are some areas where poor people live, as there are in any part of the country, but they are small compared to inner city areas on the mainland.
Perhaps instead of sneering down your nose at people, you should do your best to help those less fortunate than themselves.
doctors who are private do choose their patients and do not have to treat anyone that needs it.
and why should anyone bother helping spongers, that is all they do, is sponge.
Because the Isle of Wight is not a welcoming place! The vast majority of islanders have a horrible attitude towards mainland visitors let alone those who move here permanently.
Why would anyone want to make a home here when they are not welcome.
It’s not so hard to get them here, but it does seem difficult to get them to stay!!! Turnover seems really high, perhaps The Equaliser has a point.