Blackpool Victoria Hospital is working to fix the issue following the discovery
A crumbling hospital corridor at Blackpool Victoria Hospital is being replaced after being condemned as unsafe.
The new facility will be built alongside the existing corridor in order to minimise disruption for patients.Documents submitted with the application warn the corridor “is in an extremely poor state of condition and has been condemned by the project structural engineer as being at risk of potential future collapse”. Timber is rotten and “the single glazing along the full length of the corridor is also at risk of falling out of the frames”.
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