Harold Wood Hospital was a hospital in east

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, United Kingdom. It was located in Gubbins Lane,

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, in the

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. It was managed by Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust. The Havering Campus of

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, an NHS polyclinic and a long term conditions unit continue to operate at the hospital site, and a residential development by

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known as Kings Park is in development.

History

The hospital was opened in 1909 by West Ham County Borough council, as the Grange convalescent home for children, which operated with the nearby Plaistow fever hospital. The Grange had been a private house, built in 1884 by John Compton, owner of the Gubbins estate. The convalescent home was maintained by the county borough until the

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, as an emergency hospital. After the war it became a permanent hospital, and in the 1960s was significantly enlarged. After services relocated to

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and to King George Hospital in Redbridge, the hospital was closed on 13 December 2006. The site vacated by the hospital was earmarked for a 470-home housing development. The original plan to keep certain NHS facilities was superseded and the entire plot was approved for residential development. Local residents opposed the proposal of over 800 dwellings, including a 9-storey block. A residential development by

known as Kings Park is in development.

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{{authority control Houses completed in 1884 Hospitals disestablished in 2006 Defunct hospitals in London Health in the London Borough of Havering NHS hospitals in London

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