Planning application for Jersey's new Overdale Hospital submitted

The planning application for Jersey's new Overdale Hospital has been submitted.

The plans include an acute and general hospital, mental health unit and training centre.

There will also be more operating theatres than the current hospital and will include staff wellbeing areas.

Plans to make access to Westmount Road safer have also been submitted, with a proposal to make new woodland walks and landscape spaces with at least 860 new trees being planted.

Decisions on planning are expected to be made early next year and if the application is approved, Jersey's government hopes the hospital will be operational by the end of 2026.