Proposals for a brand new sanatorium in County Durham may just transfer ahead after Ben Houchen used to be re-elected as Tees Valley mayor.
Conservative baby-kisser Houchen secured his 3rd time period within the submit after working on a platform together with a pledge to interchange the College Health facility of North Tees.
Houchen has pledged to carry a public session on the place a brand new facility can be positioned after conceding that the present Stockton-On-Tees website online is not likely to be appropriate.
In a marketing campaign video ultimate week, Houchen mentioned “…we will construct a sanatorium and we will assist fund that sanatorium and we will ensure that it’s are compatible for goal and we will be certain that it’s state-of-the-art and we will be certain that it supplies the entire issues that we want to ensure that native folks have the well being services and products which might be required”.
Alternatively, a struggle with central govt may well be at the playing cards over the proposal.
In January, well being division officers instructed the Yorkshire Submit that Houchen didn’t have powers to construct a sanatorium.
Alternatively, Houchen mentioned in his video: “I constructed educate stations. Teach stations aren’t in my remit.
“We created the United Kingdom’s first and biggest freeport. Freeports aren’t within the mayor’s remit.
“I stored the airport from closure. Aviation and airports don’t seem to be throughout the mayor’s remit.
“It doesn’t want to be inside my remit to construct the development.”
Houchen mentioned that when constructed, the proposed development can be passed over to North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Basis Believe.
Houchen mentioned he used to be taking a look into the most popular choice of creating the sanatorium in stages at the present website online, however that “it’s taking a look not likely or doubtlessly not likely that which may be the case”.
He held off pageant within the vote from Labour’s Chris McEwan, who had pledged to “sign up for up our shipping machine, repair our damaged roads and proceed to toughen the airport”.
