New Oncology Wing - St James's Hospital

A new £220 million wing, which will provide a “state of the art” regional oncology (cancer) centre and civic landmark, is under construction at St James's Hospital.

The new wing will centralise and expand a number of key cancer services for Leeds and the wider region. The new wing will provide all non-surgical oncology services (radiotherapy, chemotherapy, clinical haematology and palliative care) and a small number of specialist surgical services. The majority of cancer surgery will, however continue to be provided in existing locations. The aim is to create a world class facility which achieves the highest standards of design and quality of environment.

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The wing will have a floor space of about 67,000m². It will in part be up to 11 storeys in height including a number of lower level floors. A multi-storey car park providing over 1200 spaces is to be built to the rear of the new wing as part of the overall scheme. In addition a new signal controlled junction is to be constructed at the Alma Street/Beckett Street junction. These road improvements will create a new main entrance to the Hospital. Construction of the New Oncology Wing on the St James's site started in autumn 2004 with a completion date of autumn 2007.

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It is anticipated that nearly 1600 people will work in the new wing. Approximately 60% of this number will be existing staff transferred from within the Trust. There will be a wide range of new jobs created. These include consultants, nurses and radiographers as well as technicians, administrative, clerical, porters, domestics and catering staff. The scheme is expected to act as a significant stimulus for the regeneration of the Harehills area. It will provide a boost for the local and regional economy as a result of the creation of a range of new jobs, both during the construction period and also for medical and support service staff who will work in the new wing.

The pictures below taken from different views around the site show the progress being made with the new building. Work on site commenced on 1st November 2004.

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Details and pictures on New Oncology Wing (http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/sites/cancer_services/new_oncology_building.php)

This has nearly finished hasnt it? It looks almost done.

Probably lots of things are happening inside...

This has nearly finished hasnt it? It looks almost done.

Yeah mate it's nearly finished. I work at St James's and therefore past this site every day, we move into the finished building very soon. Duh!!!

News from the Leeds Economy Bulletin - August 2005

Completion of the £230m cancer centre at St James’s Hospital is expected in December 2007. Around 300 people are working on site, though by Christmas that should rise to 1,000.

Seems as if things are stepping up there.

The cladding is starting to go on now.

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This will become quite a visible building on the skyline.


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I'm surprised it doesn't get more coverage on this site.

I'm surprised it doesn't get more coverage on this site.

There's a mid-rise grey and red tiled building we seem to have missed aswell.

It's quite a coincidence, I was going to bring this topic back up, as I went to St James on Friday (to survey some elevators) for the first time in a few years, and noticed the first bit of cladding going on. It'll really brighten the area up, with all the red brick in the existing St James buildings, and the red and cream Shakespeare towers across the road.

The new mid-rise looks very good too, nice bit of architecture, looks like about 8 storeys with a symetrical feature at both ends. I was told it is not actually part of St James, but some related private company.

I must say that the whole area was looking much better than when I was last there. The run in from the north had a lot of new development including a smart 7 storey residential that I knew nothing of, and driving down to the A64 and back through the city centre both looked good as St James is getting closer and closer to connecting with the city centre (with the likes of the Gateway and future developments heading eastwards).

The plan is for (eventually) the LGI, Otley and Cookridge hospitals to close, and for everything to migrate to St James'. So, we may well see development around the LGI site - in a few years time.

The plan is for (eventually) the LGI, Otley and Cookridge hospitals to close, and for everything to migrate to St James'. So, we may well see development around the LGI site - in a few years time.


Hasn't a new hospital recently been completed at Otley?

Hasn't a new hospital recently been completed at Otley?

Maybe so. I heard this from a NHS employee, and the overall strategy for Leeds was a massive St James hospital, eventually phasing out the lesser hospitals. The timescale of which, I have no idea......seems fairly controversial to me.

It's difficult to encompass the size of this new development from close at hand but you can see it quite clearly from the city centre. A nice cluster of cranes, too.

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brilliant photo - the elevated nature of the site really makes this so imposing. My brother's flat on North Street has epic views across Regent Street to St James's........

where were you for that photo stout yeoman?

........where were you for that photo stout yeoman?

"Stout yeoman"? Has a Gilbert and Sullivan ring to it!!

I was on the bridge over the inner ring road on Lovell Park Road.

Like how modern looking this is - and how it stands out on the skyline - wonder if it will be lit on a night - would look good! (though can't see NHS paying for it!)

aquamarine - its the new terracotta!!! But nicer :)

i have to say i like this Building ALOT!
and i love the colour!

Very impressed with this one. The cladding makes it visible from as far away as the M1/A1 link road near Garforth, and the structure itself dominates what was a pretty grim stretch of Leeds.

This project gets me really excited!
Somebody really needs to go and have a good photo session around that development, especially before the car park phase starts!
That whole area has a lot of energy at the moment created by the building of this wing and the new school nearing completion over the road. The surrounding areas look so much better for these developments.

PS i cannot post attachments but if i go take some photos tonight will someone volunteer to put them onto the site if i email them??

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That's the sex

That school in the last picture is a bit sexy, where is it?

I beleive that the school is part of the thomas danby college, i took the photo from barrack road in-front of the Jaguar garage. Shame that the stucture is around the back of the college really, instead they put brown and bright orage portacabin to the front of the college :(

If you look at the last photo of post 20, you see the stairwells being formed. It appears from this angle atleast there be almost none of the Turquoise cladding visable. If you look at the model in post 1 from this angle will have a rather bland elevation of the new structures (the car park).

I will reserve my judgement untill the new buildings are complete, however this building looks like some futuristic design from the 1960s and on the skyline thats not really a good thing.

Anyone fancy heading down and taking some new photos, I've not been passed in a while but guess the car park must nearly be finished?

I will reserve my judgement untill the new buildings are complete, however this building looks like some futuristic design from the 1960s and on the skyline thats not really a good thing.


I think it's a really good thing! I think the new buildings look brilliant and I love the colour. So much more interesting that most of what has been built in Leeds over the past few years.

I'd really appreciate a recent picture of this, does anybody have one? :wink2:

I wasn't impressed with the curved section when i was up last. Dark cladding instead of the proposed curved steel effect.

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I was really surprised to enter this thread and actually find positive things being said on the building's behalf. I have nothing against the building in general, and I am naturally very positive about its use and purpose - St James is clearly an excellent hospital medically, but architecturally it is disgraceful. The colour does nothing to respect the surrounding residential areas and stands out like a sore thumb. The contrast of this large structure provokes awful visions ugly industrial estates. I am not happy with the fact that a currently "fashionable" colour has been chosen in place of a colour which is naturally aesthetically pleasing to its surrounding environment. As we all know, fashion is dynamic and what we like one day we've forgotten the next. Unfortunately with this building, the fashion will soon change but we will not be able to get rid of the building quite so easily. I feel the colour should have been neutral. I feel we need to wake up and smell the coffee, we are still making the mistakes that we made with ugly blocks of flats in the 1960s (they were considered modern and fashionable once).

In conclusion, let us have less cheap and tacky buildings clogging up the Leeds skyline - more rigorous consultation before construction - less corruption on the council and a beautiful city, as it should be.

Before I finish my rant... please also give us more greenery as contrast between nature and cityscapes is one of the most aesthetically joyous combinations.

I disagree. I think modern should be modern, and make a statement. It should not have to give glory to older buildings; cities should be ever-changing places reflecting peoples dreams and aspirations. The building brings modern life and freshness into an area of town that needs it.

Just noticed on the headlines for Look North on the 6 O Clock news that the planned Childrens Hospital for St James' Hospital has been put on hold. 6:30pm BBC 1 however it really is annoying why that development has been put on hold is it as we will see later due to the cash crisis at the NHS as a childrens hospital for Leeds is something that is really needed and also would surely act as a much needed development for this area of Leeds? :ohno: :bash:

On the front page of today's YEP is more on the shelved childrens hospital scheme:

Kids' hospital bill soars to £650m

Spiralling costs.

By Katie Baldwin
The bill for a Leeds children's hospital has almost tripled in three years to £650m.
The increase was revealed by hospital managers as they were quizzed by campaigners desperate to secure the future of the hospital.
When the scheme was given the go-ahead in 2004 the cost was £230m.
Health chiefs are studying the finances again to see if they can afford annual repayments of £45m – up from £23m.
The YEP revealed two weeks ago that plans for the children's and maternity hospital were set to be shelved. Now health bosses are backtracking, saying no decision has been made, though they admit the future of the hospital is in doubt.
The scheme got the go-head in 2004 following a YEP campaign backed by the parents of poorly youngsters from across Yorkshire.
Hospital bosses are concerned about whether the scheme is affordable because of the increased cost and their cash-strapped position. The trust is set to end the financial year in debt and will have to save £30m next year.
Carol Maddocks, from campaign group Children's Hospital Uniting Maternity Services (Chums), said she was shocked about the figure and demanded an explanation.
"We need to see a breakdown of how they have got to that," she said. "They need to be accountable to the people whose money they are spending."
Mrs Maddocks was among angry parents who confronted members of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust board over the hospital.
Trust interim chief executive Professor Hugo Mascie-Taylor refused a call to resign from campaigners at a board meeting at Leeds General Infirmary.
The spiralling costs of the facility, which is to be built on the St James's Hospital site, are down to:
l A requirement to have a bigger contingency fund than previously, now amounting to £213m of the £650m;
l New standards for hospital design which are more expensive;
l More beds than originally planned;
l Extra facilities, such as a multi-storey car-park, which weren't included in previous plans;
l Refurbishing existing adult facilities which would move to St James's.
At the meeting, campaigners said there was an urgent need to improve children's services.
Mrs Maddocks said: "Do we have to wait until a child is lost? How much is that going to cost the trust if a child died in a taxi or ambulance travelling between the hospitals?"
Fellow campaigner Jonathan Abbott, whose son was treated in Leeds before his death from cancer, said: "We have no trust in this hospitals trust and no trust in this board of the trust.
"I will not accept for this to be shelved again and children's lives put at risk."
Mr Mascie-Taylor said: "It is absolutely the wish of this board to have a children's and maternity hospital built as soon as it can be built.
"The responsibility of this board is to proceed on that as quickly as possible but to be open and honest about any concerns we have got about affordability.
"We have not for one moment said the children's and maternity hospital won't go ahead but we have to work out how it is paid for. These discussions continue to take place."
After the meeting Margaret Edwards, chief executive of NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, said no decision would be made until a full consultation, due to start later this year, had taken place.
katie.baldwin@ypn.co.uk
Last Updated: 30 March 2007