Stockton health hub to be built on former shopping site
By Jim Scott
BBC News
Plans to build a health centre on the site of a soon-to-be demolished shopping centre have been submitted.
Stockton Borough Council has received the application to build the Tees Valley Diagnostic Centre on the site of the former Castlegate Shopping Centre.
The plan is for it to be jointly run by the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust and South Tees Hospitals Trust.
The trusts say it would be used to help diagnose and detect cancer quickly if it goes ahead with opening next year.
Proposals show the centre would be built on the site of the former shopping centre on the town's high street, which is being torn down.