Charlotte Hutchinson, Associate partner, Carter Jonas (London), discusses the long-term impacts of the global pandemic on the future provision of healthcare real estate
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020, the UCL’s Bartlett Real Estate Institute (The Bartlett Real Estate Institute 2020)1 considered the impact of COVID on the built environment. Its resulting report, ‘How COVID-19 will impact residential development’ concluded: ‘This pandemic will change people, the economy, and society, in ways we can’t yet imagine. We could be at a crossroads in history of the same significance as the Black Death and the two World Wars. Like it or not, it really is time to re-think real estate.
Around four years later, this article will address the long-term impacts of the global pandemic on the future provision of healthcare real estate. The immediate impacts (the provision of Nightingale Hospitals, structural changes required to enable social distancing, and the impact of the Coronavirus Act 2020 in enabling shorter-term solutions) are well known – so this article looks ahead at the way in which planning and designing for the health sector is changing.
Increased demand
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