A FORMER Wanstead doctor’s surgery will again become a family home.
A doctor at the practice, which closed in February this year, successfully applied to return the building to residential use.
Dr Jane Muir-Taylor’s proposals for the The Shieling surgery, in Spratt Hall Road, were welcomed by the council’s conservation officers, who wish to see the road - in TheWanstead Village conservation area - become fully residential.
No structural changes will be made to the buiolding, which was originally a home until 1968, when it became a surgery.
Although many people relied upon the practice for their health, the Primary Care Trust raised no objection.
William Vote, NHS Redbridge’s estates strategic development manager, wrote: “As this particular GP practice is in poor condition and of a property type not conducive to health care commensurate with the 21st century, i.e. a terraced ex-residential property, we raise no objection in this instance.”
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