Planning permission has been granted to develop a new Maggie's Centre in the grounds of St James's University Hospital in Leeds.

The facility is due to open in 2017 and was designed by Heatherwick Studio.

Laura Lee, Chief Executive of Maggie's said: "We're absolutely thrilled to have been granted planning permission to bring a Maggie's Centre to Yorkshire. Creating a calm and uplifting environment to enable us to be able to provide our programme of support to people living with cancer is incredibly important and Heatherwick Studio's wonderful design will allow us to do just that."

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Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studio said: "We're delighted to be working with Maggie's to bring a Centre to Yorkshire and to have the opportunity to create a positive environment for users and staff. The site is a small patch of green surrounded by the huge volumes of the existing hospital buildings. Instead of taking away the open space we wanted to make a whole building out of a garden."

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