The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust has held open days to mark completion of its newly-built £75 million Roseberry Park mental health facility at the St Luke’s Hospital, Middlesbrough site.
The facility aims to provide a welcoming, therapeutic environment for service users and staff. Believed to be the largest mental health project recently constructed in the UK, it was delivered under PFI by consortium members John Laing, Laing O’Rourke, MAAP Architects, WSP Building, and Desco, and comprises 312 inpatient beds for mental health, learning disabilities, and forensic services, for adults and older people. The design breaks down the accommodation into a number of “houses” arranged around large activity gardens and courtyards to create an architecture of “enclosure without fences”. John Ord, associate director, PFI projects, at the Trust, said: “Roseberry Park is a key part of our plans to fundamentally modernise the way we provide services, and the penultimate capital development of a long-term investment strategy. The building work has been completed on time and to budget, and we are now putting in the finishing touches before the hospital welcomes in its first patients.”
