CASE STUDY Law Hospital land sale Law Hospital in Carluke, South Not only did the sale produce a Lanarkshire became surplus to positive land value for the health Helping requirements when NHS Lanarkshire board, the purchaser, a Midlands moved its remaining clinical services based property developer, plans to transform to the new general hospital at develop a range of residential Wishaw in 2001. options offering affordable, family vacant site for To help with the original marketing homes and opportunities for self- 600 homes of the site, the non-operational parts build, potentially creating a new of Law Hospital was demolished in community of 600 homes. 1997, but several attempts to The master planning process has finalise the sale of the 77 acre site started with pre-application proved unsuccessful, partly due to its consultations being undertaken with proximity to a low value secondary/ the local communities. tertiary residential market which John Paterson, director of Property & coupled with adverse ground Support Services Division at NHS conditions arising from historical Lanarkshire, said: “It seems like a mining workings. while ago now we started to discuss Since 2012/13, the Scottish Futures options for the disposal of Law. You Trust’s (SFT) team of property and land may know that NHS Lanarkshire had experts have been working with most an aborted attempt to sell a good of Scotland’s NHS boards and other few years back (before our time), and public bodies to assist in completing prior to SFT’s involvement we had low Scottish Futures Trust complex and difficult property sales confidence of a sale any time soon. 11-15 Thistle Street transactions, such as Law Hospital. “With the receipt through now, I’d Edinburgh EH2 1DF In relation to Law Hospital, SFT’s Land just like to thank SFT for its T: +44 (0)131 510 0800 Team worked with NHS Lanarkshire considerable support and for to develop an alternative marketing bringing a refreshed perspective scottishfuturestrust.org.uk strategy for the site and successfully which undoubtedly drove this concluded a sale in July 2019. disposal to conclusion.” .