Departments sizes at the Future Hospital (FOI)

​Request

Regarding our new Hospital in Gloucester Street, please can you provide me with the following information?

A

The names of each individual department and their square footage in Gloucester Street.

B

The names of each individual department and their square footage in Westaway Court.

C

The size of the new catering unit that is rented at St Peter.

D

The number of car parking spaces for numbers A, B, and C above.

Response

A

The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 (Accessible by other means) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as the information is already available to you on the following websites.

Details regarding the hospital department names and locations can be found on the following website under FAQ “Where will departments be in the new hospital building?”

Future Hospital FAQ

The proposed size of the new hospital departmental areas was answered in this previous FOI which is available at the following link:

Square meterage of Future Hospital (FOI)

This information was correct at the end of 2017 when the first reporting stage RIBA 1 was agreed. The next reporting stage is at the end of RIBA stage 2 is still a work in progress and has not been finalised.

B

Please see response to question A

C

The size of the St Peter’s Catering Unit is as follows.

All the information is available in documentation accompanying the planning application P/2017/1522 – which is available for you to view at:

Planning Application reference P/2017/1522

D

The department holds the information you are seeking regarding question D. However, the information is exempt under Article 23 (Accessible by other means) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as the information is already available.

Patriotic Street car park is available for patient parking for the new building on the main Gloucester Street site. Parking allocations were discussed at the neighbourhood business forum on 24 October 2018, notes of which are available at the following link (see page 2):

Neighbourhood business forum notes - 24 October 2018

Further details are available in the Transport Assessment accompanying the outline planning application.

Transport assessment

Detailed information regarding the parking at Westaway Court is included in the notes of the neighbourhood forum from 27 September 2018 (page 5), which are available at the following link:

Neighbourhood business forum notes - 27 September 2018

These are the arrangements as currently proposed but they are still to be finalised.

Parking availability for the St Peter’s Catering Unit is as follows.

Article applied

Article 23 information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the