Camden Council has resolved to approve planning permission for a new Children's Cancer Centre to be developed at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Contractor Sisk has been working on the project which will deliver vital healthcare services for the children who use GOSH for a number of years and has welcomed the decision.

The new clinical building, on Great Ormond Street itself,  will be dedicated to caring for children and young people from across the UK and beyond with rare and difficult-to-treat cancers.

Matthew Shaw, Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: "We are delighted that Camden Council's planning committee resolved to grant planning permission for our plans for our new Children's Cancer Centre.


"This is an important step towards more children and young people being able to receive care and treatment in the best possible environment. This new centre will put us in a strong position to build on the decades of work undertaken by our clinicians and the  researchers from our academic partner ICH to deliver the very best, kindest and effective treatments for cancer.

"The new centre will include cancer wards, cancer day care, new theatres and intensive care units meaning the specialist teams needed for our patients can all work more closely together. The building will also house new imaging equipment and a specialised chemotherapy pharmacy will also be created to ensure we keep pace with world leading cancer care practice. Alongside the clinical services, the new building gives us the opportunity to create a new entrance for the hospital and to create a new school for the children who come to GOSH."

GOSH will now work with Camden Council and the Greater London Authority to secure full planning permission and the Decision Notice can be issued.  The deconstruction and construction programme is due to take around three years to complete.