A PLAN has been submitted to turn Solihull Ambulance
Station into a conference centre – but keeping space for ambulances.

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Medica Group has applied for planning permission from Solihull
Metropolitan Borough Council for the Hermitage Road
station.
It seeks changing its official use to a conference centre,
training venue, offices and ambulance station.
The station will close under controversial plans
to re-organise the ambulance service across the West Midlands .
It will operate ambulances from 15 West Midlands
“hubs” and 88 “remote” operating points, such as Knowle, increasing total
regional places from 88 to 146.
Medica said its facility will provide training for
healthcare professionals and can be hired by residents, the planning application
says.
It adds: “The applicant recognises the importance of
retaining an ambulance station and, as part of ongoing discussions with the
ambulance service, has sought to make provisions for this.”
The plan will “ensure this well located and sustainable site
continues in productive use”.
West Midlands Ambulance Service pledged to replace the
station with five sites in Solihull .
No site has been announced for Knowle and Dorridge after
plans for to station two ambulances at Arden
school were withdrawn.
The service said demand is rising and the changes will
ensure serious cases are attended more quickly.
It said: “The ambulance service of the future is one where
the patient will be given the right treatment,
first time, every time. Life-threatening cases will be attended to
faster and treated to increasingly more advanced levels.”
To see the planning application click here and enter 2013
and 1505 in the two boxes.
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