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Springfield Garden Village

Springfield Garden Village is the Trust's plan for the future of its 168-year-old headquarters at Springfield University Hospital in Tooting.

The planning application is now available to read in full on Wandsworth Borough Council's website. Your feedback is welcomed.

The proposals will provide around £100m of brand new mental health facilities for local and national NHS services and refurbish the site's listed buildings by constructing new homes and new commercial, leisure and community facilities on the site.

Ranked in the top six of new London developments by Think London.
Cited as an example of best practice in masterplanning for health by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and Architecture and Design Scotland.

Reasons for regenerating Springfield:

To provide world class mental health facilities that maintain Springfield's high standards of care.
To conserve the site's heritage buildings.
To improve the layout of the site, make it more welcoming and easier to navigate.
To improve transport links to Springfield.
To provide modern infrastructure (water, waste, energy) that is more efficient and more reliable.
To provide valuable amenities such as community and leisure facilities that improve health and wellbeing.

So what is the plan?
The plan is to deliver the six points above by creating a mixed use development at Springfield that is inspired by the 'garden village' approach to urban design. A "mixed-use development" is one that combines new homes with a range of other uses (such as health, leisure, retail and community facilities), creating an attractive, vibrant and sustainable new community.

What will the new Springfield be like?
The regeneration of Springfield will bring significant improvements to the site. As well as providing world class mental health facilities, it will have well planned and well lit streets and pathways, restored heritage buildings, new homes, a small number of shops, a cafe/restaurant, new bus stops, new bike facilities, car club spaces, restored heritage gardens, a large public park with a lake, playgrounds, a nursery, a gym and the potential for a community facility, a new primary school and a GP surgery. It will also lead to the 're-greening' of a number of areas, creating a total of 19 hectares of parks and gardens.

What is happening now?
The Trust has put together a 'masterplan' for Springfield's regeneration with the help of an expert team of planners and architects. Permission is being sought from the local authority, Wandsworth Borough Council, through an outline planning application.

How can I get involved?
Contact the team at Springfield on 020 8682 6513 or regeneration@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk to be added to the Springfield Garden Village mailing list.

Where can I see the plans?
The documents are available to download from Wandsworth Borough Council's website. If you have trouble downloading them, the Trust has a limited number of CDs with the files that we will be happy to post to you or, alternatively, you are welcome to come to Springfield to read the documents in hard copy. Contact the team on the details above to arrange this.

More information

For updates visit the latest news page.
For information about the consultation visit the consultation page.
For information about similar projects visit the background page.
To download documents about Springfield Garden Village visit the resources page.
To see the outline planning application in full go to Wandsworth Borough Council's website.
To request your own copy of the outline planning application documents, or to arrange to see the original hard copies at Springfield, email us.

Join the Trust as a member
If you are interested in the regeneration of Springfield University Hospital in Tooting why not join the Trust as a member? Find out more and learn how you can become a member by emailing membership@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk.