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W M Donald is part of the team breathing life into the former Sunnyside Royal Hospital in Montrose
Sunnyside Estates – a joint venture of Pert Bruce and FM Group – has embarked on a fifteen-year project to redevelop the site of the former Royal Sunnyside Hospital in Montrose. W M Donald is responsible for all enabling infrastructure works including adoptable and private access roads, bulk earthworks, adoptable sewers and plot works.
The project will eventually deliver 450 homes across its 64- acre site. It includes the redevelopment of the imposing main hospital building into 10 townhouses and 24 apartments.
The hospital was founded in 1781 as the Montrose Lunatic* Asylum, Infirmary and Dispensary by Susan Carnegie**. It was the first psychiatric hospital in Scotland.
The hospital moved to its current site in the grounds of Sunnyside Farm in 1858 and when it finally closed in 2011 after 230 years of service it was known as the Sunnyside Royal Hospital.
Since the ‘National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990’, the emphasis has been on care in the community, outpatient treatments and, for residential patients, smaller psychiatric units. This has led to the demise of many large Victorian institutions. In recent years, W M Donald has been involved in four developments within the grounds of former psychiatric hospitals: Sunnyside; Craig Dunain (Inverness); Cornhill (Aberdeen); Kingseat (Newmachar).
To find out more about the Sunnyside development visit
www.sunnysideestate.co.uk.
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