Central ward is home to around 20% of the population of the Doncaster Borough. The large residential and commercial community in the area has made it a prime location for development and re-generation.
In recent years the ward has seen a number of significant regeneration projects including the £300 million deveopment of the Waterdale area, the new Frenchgate Shopping Centre and the £90 million Education City development for further and higher education.
In October 2009 NHS Doncaster was given the ‘green light’ to build a new £8 million health care centre in Doncaster town centre. The new ‘super surgery’ is set to be the biggest of its kind in the Doncaster area.
The £8 million Town Hub project, at four storeys high, will be a landmark development for Doncaster, situated at the corner of Trafford Way and Cleveland Street and close to the interchange and railway station. Current buildings on the site will be demolished to make way for the futuristic design, which will host a wide range of family doctor and other services. It will eventually be the permanent home for Doncaster’s 8am to 8pm health centre, which is open every day of the year and currently based in temporary accommodation at Devonshire House, South Parade.
Building work is expected to start in early 2010 and be completed in Autumn 2011. When completed, it will bring to nine the number of new health centres built in the Doncaster area through the NHS LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) programme since 2006, with many of them housing community and social care facilities as well.
Local Councillors
Cllr Stuart Exelby
Cllr Glyn Jones
Cllr John McHale
Children and Young People
Sure StartHealth
Doncaster PCT
The Sandrigham Practice
Doncaster Royal InfirmaryTickhill Road Hospital
Park Hill Private HospitalDoncaster Orthopeadic Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service
Bpas DoncasterBpas Danum Lodge Clinic
Doncaster Substance Misuse Service