{"id":377640,"date":"2025-08-27T12:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377640\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:49:10","slug":"masterplan-for-new-fort-william-hospital-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377640\/","title":{"rendered":"Masterplan for new Fort William hospital updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

A masterplan for a new hospital in Fort William has been updated to increase the building’s overall floor space.<\/p>\n

NHS Highland is working with Highland Council on the proposed \u00a3137m replacement for the town’s 60-year-old Belford Hospital.<\/p>\n

It is to be built in the Blar Mhor area, near Caol, and the Scottish government allocated funding in its 2025-26 Budget <\/a>for the project.<\/p>\n

The total gross floor space has been increased – from 8,500 sq metres to 12,400 sq metres – to meet up-to-date healthcare design standards which require larger clinical spaces.<\/p>\n

People in Lochaber have been campaigning for a replacement for the town’s Belford Hospital for more than 20 years, and hundreds of people took part in a protest last March<\/a> to express their frustration at delays to the project.<\/p>\n

A replacement for the Belford was first suggested in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

The masterplan has been prepared ahead of permission in principle being sought for building the new hospital.<\/p>\n

NHS Highland said earlier this year that construction could potentially start in October 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A masterplan for a new hospital in Fort William has been updated to increase the building’s overall floor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-377640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115100815569431458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377640","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=377640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}