Plans for a Maggie's Centre by Alison Brooks Architects on a site in Taunton, UK, have been halted after the local council voted against leasing land for the scheme.
The cancer care centre, which had been granted planning permission by the former Taunton Deane Borough Council in 2019, is designed for a small parcel of land within Galmington Playing Fields ? a play area close to Musgrove Park Hospital.
However, the authority has now been replaced by Somerset West and Taunton Council, which has blocked plans to lease the site due to public backlash and the potential loss of communal green space.
Maggie's is now searching for a new site for its centre, which is hoped to support the local hospital's care for cancer patients and their families. Site chosen for proximity to hospital
Alison Brooks Architects' studio was appointed for Maggie's Taunton in 2014, shortly after the former council first gave an agreement-in-principle to develop the land.
Its proposal comprises four pavilions, placed in an X shape around a central two-storey building. Externally, these would be wrapped by lush landscaping and distinguished by gently curving roofs.
The centre is designed to be domestic in scale and is imagined to use landscaping in place of partitions to help create a light, open-plan environment.
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