Campus Site Timeline

Recent Health Campus milestones:

Over the last two years, significant progress has been made in delivering the Health Campus vision and objectives.

The most important of these is the appointment of a private sector partner to work with the council and WHHT.

  • June 2011 the council, in conjunction with WHHT, issued an OJEU notice to procure a Private Sector Partner (PSP) for the Health Campus

  • September 2012 Kier Project Investment Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kier Group Plc was selected as preferred bidder. Although they had presented an outline masterplan as part of their submission, this will be reviewed and updated over the next few months

  • December 2012 approval given to proceed with establishing a Local Asset Backed Vehicle (LABV) between the council and Kier. The LABV will be a business partner to enable West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust to offer non acute related facilities and services and wider support for its estate redevelopment.

A Local Asset Backed Vehicle (LABV) is a joint venture equity partnership between public sector bodies such as the local authority and the Hospital) and a private sector investment partner.

The public sector partners contribute land and the investment partner contributes capacity to deliver, skills, experience and funds to develop the asset. Any profits generated through the LABV are shared 50:50.

How the project has and will develop over the coming years

This is an indicative timetable. With a project of the complexity and timeframe of the Health Campus, we would expect the programme to be reviewed and update regularly.

  • end of 2012: Joint venture
  • spring 2013: Masterplan hybrid developed
  • 2014 - 2015: Infrastructure
  • 2014 - 2015: Decant space for NHS Hospitals Trust
  • 2014 - 2015: Residential (central)
  • 2015 - 2016: NHS Hospitals Trust building
  • 2015 - 2016: Car park
  • 2015 - 2016: Employment space (south), creating new jobs
  • 2015 - 2016: Neighbourhood foodstore, creating new jobs
  • 2016 - 2018: Lakeside residential
  • 2018 - 2019: Car park and residential
  • 2019 - 2020: Retail boulevard for patients, staff and local people, creating new jobs
  • 2021: Cardiff Road residential
  • 2022 - 2023: Vicarage Road hotel, creating new jobs
  • 2023 - 2024: Office employment space and retail hub, creating new jobs
  • 2024 - 2025: Employment space (north), creating new jobs
  • 2025 - 2026: R&D expansion, creating new jobs

The NHS Hospital Trust are also working up their plans for the new hospital complex and expansion.