A brand new dentist practice boasting 9 treatment rooms could be heading to Ryde, if plans are approved to convert a former youth club at the top of town.
The application for a change of use from D1 to E(e) provision of medical/health services has been submitted for 97 High Street by Darko Illioski, who currently operates out of Bupa on Melville Street in Ryde.
Under the plans, the 1st floor of the former youth club building will be converted for dentistry with 4 clinic rooms, a waiting area, a main office, a sterilization room and a staff room. A new floor within the upper element of the building will be created with a further 5 clinic rooms.
The ground floor of the grand building, which is currently used as a nursery/daycare under the name ‘Wonder House’, will be retained, as will all other parts of the building, including existing openings and apertures.
According to planning documents, the building appears, at some point, to have been used as a theatre or other community building, with a large vaulted ceiling internally at 1st floor level and a stage. It is also known that it was a Methodist Church prior to this.
If approved, the High Street premises will host 15 full time employees – although it is unclear where an influx of dentists will come from to fill the 9 treatment rooms. It is known that Tower House Dentist Surgery is on the hunt for a new home…
Parking is an issue addressed in the planning application, with it said that staff can park on Well Street and Swanmore Road – both residential streets. There will be no on-site parking for staff or patients.
Islanders can comment on the plans until 21st July at https://publicaccess.iow.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=RWA66LIQGZQ00&activeTab=summary. The Isle of Wight Council is due to make a decision by 10th August.
No Parking, chaos looms. 1st & second floor surgeries? Can’t see a lift on the plans, disabled access? 9 dentists? Can’t see that happening either.
If it’s NHS and they do sedation for nervous patients then put my name down while I still have a few teeth left
Rest assured, they’re be private dentists doing the governments dirty work in privatising the NHS.
Sounds great on the face of it but it’s a useless waste of time and money if it means that other dental practices will close down and move there.
It won’t make anymore extra dental capacity on the island.
Tories: We need a tax cut, stop spending on youth centres.
one year later
Tories: We need a tax cut, reduce the number of police.
one more year later
Tories: The kids are all hanging about on the streets, why will the police not do anything??
Tories: We need to cut the money we pay dentists for NHS work.
Tories: Too many people turning up at A&E with acute toothache.
Tories: We need to do something about the lack of NHS dentists.
Erm….I remember it was the previous Labour Government that negotiated the current Contract for GP and Dentistry provision in England and Wales and the outcome of how successful that has been is obvious to All.
I don’t recall that Contract being changed in any meaningful way, in the ensuing years, primarily because it’s a nice little earner for the two professions.
Well, done for bringing that subject up, Now, that will remind the Conservatives reading your posts and that will blow up in Labour Party Faces in the run up to the GE…. as if the long suffering queues for both medical and dentist treatments haven’t got enough on their plates, while you ‘politicos’ score points off each other, that back-fire, in this case, and NOTHING, changes.
Lol where are they going to get the dentists from? And will anyone be able to register? I was recently told there is a ‘dentist crisis’ when trying to see a dentist because of a broken tooth. I had to go to the mainland to get it sorted. This has to be a sick joke
“The application for a change of use (…) has been submitted (…) by Darko Illioski, who currently operates out of Bupa on Melville Street in Ryde.”
Bupa announced a while ago that they are withdrawing from the Isle of Wight. So what is wrong with the existing dental surgery in Melville Street?
Probably make more money than in Melville St.
Pathetic. The island is awash with private dentists now the Tories have almost completely ruined NHS Dentistry.
Could be totally welcomed, my only concern is that it won’t be sufficiently staffed, and most likely be private not NHS dentist
so that wont happen then..