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Green Light For €10M Primary Care Centre For Tullamore

3rd September 2015

A €10 MILLION Primary Care Centre is to be built at Church View, Tullamore. Work will begin on the modern facility in the next six weeks and 100 people will be employed during the construction phase which is expected to take 18 months to complete. Once up and running the centre will create 95 full-time jobs.

Courtesy of Tullamore Tribune

9 local doctors have signed up to open their practice at the centre, which will include other ancillary accommodation and "an own door" pharmacy and café at ground floor level.

The HSE located on the first floor will provide Physiotherapy Services, Occupational and Speech Therapy, Dietitians, Chiropodist and Community Nursing Facilities to include a range of bookable Treatment Rooms.

Despite two objections An Bord Pleanala gave the facility the green light upholding an earlier decision by Offaly County Council.

The developers behind the project say they are delighted with the outcome, 'it has been a long road,' they added.

Meanwhile McCarthy O'Hora (MCOH) who are the architects for the project said there were no conditions attached to the permission.

'An Bord Pleanála concluded that the new Primary Care Centre by virtue of its location, would not seriously injure the amenities of the area, would be acceptable in terms of traffic and would, therefore, be in accordance with the proper planning and sustainable development of the area,' they said.

MCOH added that An Bord Pleanala reflected and supported entirely the Design approach and the HSE Primary Care strategy, 'and by refuting all 3rd party objections will now permit their clients "Tullamore Medical Centre Ltd" to proceed to the construction stage of this state of the art Health Care Facility in Tullamore.

MCOH added that they 'are well experienced in the Design of Primary Care Centres having successfully delivered the impressive Primary Care Centre in Newbridge and are currently engaged as Architects by the Balfour Beatty consortium who have been selected as preferred bidder by the National Development Finance Agency, on behalf of the HSE to deliver 14 no. Primary Care Centres nationwide. MCOH Architects are responsible for 3 of the 14 Primary Care Centres at Claremorris, Summerhill and Westport, which are all scheduled to commence on site in early 2016.'

A spokesman for the Architects said 'the new Primary Care Centre in Tullamore will reflect the design quality, facilities and services to be provided in the 14 Primary Care Centres to be developed on behalf of the HSE, all of which is in response to the Government's Health Reform Programme, placing a new emphasis on developing the role of primary care within a universal health care system.

In designing this new Primary Care Centre in Tullamore the architects have worked in close collaboration with the Medical Practitioners, the HSE and other stakeholders.

Architects Paddy O'Hora and Ross McNamara, who both reside in Tullamore will be project managing the new Primary Care Centre to be delivered on behalf of their clients in 2016.

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