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Bangour Village Hospital

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On 1 October 2015 Planning Permission for a residential and mixed use redevelopment of the former hospital site is being sought. The application notes some of the listed buildings at the site may be proposed for full demolition in a subsequent application. This may include villas 7,8,9 and 21, with
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In April 2024, RoundShield (an investment company) and the Ambassador Group (estate agents) announced that they had secured funding of £21 million for a large-scale residential development on the site. This would initially include 51 "energy-efficient" new homes and the first 23 refurbished flats
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Temporary marquees and prefabricated huts were erected to cope with the demand for wartime bed space: the temporary facility became noted for its burns and plastic surgery unit which was established in 1940. After the war the temporary facility was developed as
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In early 2020, it was confirmed that five of the listed buildings on site were in very poor condition and were planned to be demolished, while the remaining ten buildings were due to be redeveloped for housing.
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When the hospital was built, road access was poor, and considerable volumes of coal and general stores were required for the running of the facility. A private railway line was built, branching from the former
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in nearby Livingston, Bangour General Hospital closed in 1991. The Village Hospital also started to wind down after the opening of St Johns with the last remaining ward closing in 2004.
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to test de-contamination procedures in the event of a nuclear, chemical or biological incident. This involved 250 volunteer "casualties" and 400 emergency staff.
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the road network was improved, and the railway became unnecessary; it was closed on 1 August 1921, although passenger services probably ceased on 4 May 1921.
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within the existing listed buildings. The two companies also announced the sale of part of the site to Barratt Homes for further residential development.
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During September 2009, the hospital grounds were used as the site for "Exercise Green Gate", a counter-terrorist exercise run by the
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The hospital was modelled on the village system of patient care, the best example of which is the Alt-Scherbitz hospital at
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and officially opened as the Edinburgh District Asylum in October 1906. At the centre of the site was an
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hall. The site also incorporated a power station, workshops, a bakery, stores, a kitchen and a laundry.
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A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume 6, Scotland, the Lowlands and the Borders
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the hospital was occupied by the War Office again and the patients were evacuated to
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Bangour Village Hospital Villas 3, 4, and 5, by mybabyangel85: a photoset on Flickr
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church, designed by Harold Ogle Tarbolton, was built between 1924 and 1930.
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The closed hospital was used as a filming location for the 2005 film
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in Germany which was developed in the 1870s. It was designed by
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Bangour Village Hospital – Before and After: A video on YouTube
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After general medical services transferred to the newly-opened
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Bangour Village Hospital, by Dazzababes: a photoset on Flickr
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other buildings potentially proposed for partial demolition.
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Bangour Village Hospital – Urban Exploration Photography
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but reverted to psychiatric work between the wars. A
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Bangour Hospital
NHS Lothian

Bangour Village Hospital is located in West Lothian
Dechmont
West Lothian
Scotland
Coordinates
55°55′25″N 3°33′00″W / 55.92361°N 3.55000°W / 55.92361; -3.55000
Care system
NHS
Type
Hospitals in Scotland
psychiatric hospital
Dechmont
West Lothian
Scotland

Schkeuditz
Hippolyte Blanc
Edwardian Baroque
War Office
First World War
Romanesque style
Second World War
Hartwoodhill Hospital
Bangour General Hospital
St John's Hospital
Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway
Bangour railway station

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