Lease agreed for York's old Burnholme Community College site

The executive last year agreed to develop the Burnholme site as a health and wellbeing campus and retained sports provision.

Investment is already underway for a new Tang Hall library and community centre on the site and construction of the Burnholme Care Home will begin shortly.

Subject to consultation with patients, stakeholders and local people, the Priory Medical Group is looking to bring together its three practices in the area onto the one location.

And it plans to provide an Urgent Care Centre for patients who need urgent and necessary treatment, which cannot wait for a routine GP appointment.

Patients of Tang Hall Lane, Park View and Heworth Green surgeries and the public are to be consulted over the design of the proposed health centre and see plans and comment on the proposals before it is submitted for planning.

The Burnholme Health & Wellbeing campus, as agreed in May 2016 will retain sports facilities and pitches on the Burnholme Site.

The sports facilities, which have been retained and managed by YorWellbeing staff for community use following the school closure in summer 2014, include the sports hall, school gym, changing rooms and toilets and a small office.

Labour leader Cllr Janet Looker told the meeting of the executive earlier this month that it is crucial that the bus service to the new Priory Medical Centre is improved.

“This area is not well served at all,” she said. “If three significant surgeries are being closed are the patients going to be able to access the new medical centre?”

She was advised by a council officer that although the bus routes are circuitous, it is possible to travel there by bus.

Cllr Carol Runciman said she welcomed the health hub and hoped that the NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group will support Priory’s plans. She added that the emergency centre is an excellent idea.