Newcraigs Hospital, Inverness
Before the works began.
After the works were finished.
Erz were commissioned by the Green Exercise Partnership and NHS Highland in 2013 to develop a landscape master plan for the Newcraigs Hospital campus. The Newcraigs campus external environment was recognised as being poor; dominated by parking and vehicle circulation, with a lack of legible walking routes and with limited usable outdoor space for patients, staff or the wider public.
The landscape master plan identifies a series of interventions including: structural planting to define routes, edges and create human scale spaces, new connecting pedestrian routes, the creation of a new ‘hub’ space to act as a destination for all users of the campus and the creation of usable outdoor spaces associated with individual wards informed by specific clinical needs.
Funding was secured to deliver a first phase of the landscape master plan, including the creation and enhancement of walking routes, the design and implementation of waymarking features, structural planting, the creation of the hub space (Cala) and a dementia garden associated with one of the wards. The phase one works were completed in 2016.
