Site Disposal:
Lost and barely touched in the Banstead Woods stood this hospital. Due to the out of reach location, it had been explored by very few people and it was quite a site. There was part of a Grade II listed burnt out shell; an odd mix of buildings just lumped next to each other; its huge un-overgrown garden with wall and not to mention the missing part of the original mansion building that became the nurses accommodation block. (War damage? Disrepair?)
On one really freezing winter, I went out there with Baldrickthecunning only to stumble across some plans with a cover of a rather badly scanned areal photograph of the Queen Liz Hospital...
This shows the basic ground plan of the Hospitals buildings. On the document, Cluttons is named as the people who'll possibly take the task of conversion on board. For whatever reasons, it went to a group known as 'Try Homes' for just under £6m, who will finish them around April 2008. Due to the Grade II listing of the buildings it'll be interesting to see what the finished product looks like.Not much to go on with the plan that I have. It covers site area and pictures of it's current state back in 1996/7. The photographs are too over saturated to scan in...
2011 Addendum: After a bit of researching recently, it seems the flats they built on the site have been described by residents as damp, poorly heated, has a high service charge and funnily enough it suffers from bouts of vandalism, which is rather peculiar considering where the place is. Well, it isn't that peculiar really as I've a bit of a saying for these sorts of things, "Big garden, fuck all to do"...