<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Planning consent was granted for a 460sqm medical facility to be provided on the Ryewood Meadows development in Dunton Green. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HOWEVER, the local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is not obliged to accept the building and so work towards establishing a new/satellite surgery or other medical service on that site. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The terms of the Section 106 Legal Agreement allow for a cash sum (in this instance c. £302,000) to be paid in lieu and it seems increasingly probable that this is the direction that the CCG might follow. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Whilst this must be spent within a 2 mile radius of the site residents have expressed concerns that local needs are not being addressed and that with an increasing local population there are strong arguments for the provision of an additional facility.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Under the terms of the Section 106 Agreement a decision must be made by March 2016 and so it is increasingly urgent that local people in Dunton Green & Riverhead in particular indicate their support for the proposed medical facility on the Ryewood Meadows development.</span></span></em></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>We, the undersigned, petition NHS England, NHS Property Services and existing local GP surgeries to provide the much needed proposed medical facility on the Ryewood Meadows development.</strong></span></span></div>
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