{"id":276250,"date":"2025-07-20T02:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276250\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T02:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:16:24","slug":"anger-at-disruption-filth-and-noise-as-mental-health-centre-build-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276250\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger at ‘disruption, filth and noise’ as mental health centre build drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents opposite the new Mossley Hill Hospital have hit out at the disruption caused\"GrahamGraham and Dave, residents of Grosvenor Court on Park Avenue, Mossley Hill outside the site of the new mental health facility(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

Frustrated residents living opposite the building of a new mental health centre in south Liverpool have hit out at the \u201cdisruption, filth and noise\u201d caused by contractors on site. Work got underway in 2024 on the creation of four, 20 bed wards on the site of the former Mossley Hill<\/a> hospital.<\/p>\n

Proposals for the new facility were signed off by Liverpool Council<\/a>\u2019s planning committee in 2022, with a reduced number of beds – down from 106 originally put forward by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust which owns the land and will operate the new centre. Original planning permission was granted for the scheme in 2017.<\/p>\n

It had been hoped that a new facility would be completed in 2020. Speaking to the LDRS, irritated residents at Grosvenor Court across the road from the new hospital have hit out about how their area has been treated during the construction phase.<\/p>\n

The amalgamated facility will provide acute care services previously found at the Broadoak Unit in Broadgreen Hospital and Windsor House, Toxteth<\/a>. The revised scheme will no longer incorporate the services from the STAR Unit, located at the Rathbone Hospital site, and as a result the number of beds required has been reduced, with only four wards now being built.<\/p>\n

Demolition of the former hospital buildings, which previously consisted of a series of predominantly single and two storey blocks for mental health care, was completed in December 2021. Northern Ireland-based contractor GRAHAM has been working on site for the past year.<\/p>\n

Janet Rowland has lived in Grosvenor Court for more than two decades and is secretary of the property\u2019s management company. She said: \u201cThe noise has just been horrendous.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou hear beeping throughout the day and we\u2019ve flagged up the parking issues. They\u2019ve systematically destroyed the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe site of the new mental health facility on Park Avenue, Mossley Hill(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

Graham Ward has been in his home for eight years. He added: \u201cWe just thought they would have started clearing up by now, it\u2019s gone on and on and on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all had issues with the lorries coming up and down the road, it\u2019s been horrendous, we can\u2019t open our windows because of the dust. There\u2019s a nursery down the road, people try to drop their kids off but they can\u2019t because there\u2019s contractors\u2019 cars everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Ward also expressed his annoyance at litter being left around by workers, with cans and bottles dumped in hedgerows alongside dust covering for work boots. He added: \u201cWe moved here because it\u2019s beautiful and quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave Cook also lives on Grosvenor Court and joined Mr Ward and Mrs Rowland to speak to the ECHO<\/a>. Mr Ward said: \u201cWe’ve endured nearly four years of the building of it and the disruption, filth and noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

The residents have set out a list of requests to the contractor, including road sweeping, damaged road surfacing repairs and \u201cacknowledgement of the disruption, nuisance and loss of use caused.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for GRAHAM said: \u201cWe understand the frustration and disruption residents are experiencing, and we appreciate their continued patience. Regarding parking and access difficulties on Park Avenue, we understand this is a major concern.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have continued to reinforce this with our supply chain, however we do not have jurisdiction over this road and there are currently no council enforced parking restrictions in place. We also note that this road\/area is used by other construction sites in the surrounding area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe anticipate that major construction works will be completed in approximately one month’s time. We are fully committed to minimising the impact of this essential development on the local community during this final phase, and we thank residents for their understanding as we work to resolve these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents opposite the new Mossley Hill Hospital have hit out at the disruption causedGraham and Dave, residents of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,21725,211,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-mossley-hill","13":"tag-nhs","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114883158695894274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}