What is the Watford Health Campus?

Learn about the Health Campus and its benefits

The Watford Health Campus is not a bio-science park. We do however strongly believe that by moving some of the economically valuable activity (inter alia offices, meeting and conference facilities), currently hidden within hospital and other buidlings, into privately built, leased premises, that a case can be demonstrated for savings to the Public purse as well as business opportunities for the private sector.

The Watford Health Campus therefore, is the alignment of pre-existing investment plans from across the Public Sector to provide a co-ordinated development providing as a minimum the facilities required by the Public sector.

The Watford Health Campus aims to combine the delivery of healthcare with the promotion of wellness through:

• Locating of community, intermediate and acute care facilities including a redeveloped General Hospital along with education, leisure, recreation and fitness facilities on the same site
• Providing opportunities for outdoor recreation such as allotment gardens, walking and cycling
• Providing business, medical, education and research premises that contribute to the delivery of healthcare

...and the promotion of environmental sustainability through:

• A Green Travel Plan, encouraging access to the site wherever possible by public transport, walking or cycling
• Seeking to minimise the carbon impact of the scheme through the use of renewable energy
• A waste minimisation strategy to emphasise recycling, re-use and re-engineering of waste
• The promotion of social inclusion and community cohesion by: community involvement in the development process
• Encouraging social and economic measures to improve access to training and employment
• Seeking to create an enterprise culture within the neighbourhood.