CHURCH Street has been named the new location for the controversial drugs clinic currently based at Manchester Road.
Since last year, multi-agency partners have considered more than 20 possible sites for the clinic but only four suitable properties have come up meaning the search continued.
However, residents around Manchester Road are now delighted as the Primary Care Trust, Drug Action Team and local residents have decided a former GP practice building is a more suitable location.
Chief executive of Sefton PCT, Leigh Griffin, and director of health and social care and chair of DAT, Charlie Barker, say that 8 Church Street offers a number of distinct advantages as it is owned by the PCT, it is a detached property and as home to a former GP practice it already has two established medical rooms.
As many residents have said for some time, one of the most noticeable factors is that it is located within 200 yards of the original base for drug treatment services.
The drugs clinic had been based at Hoghton Street since the 1970s but had to relocate as plans to redevelop the site were rubberstamped.
The ex-GPs’ surgery on Manchester Road was used because of its proximity to the town centre.
Church Street has the new LIFT centre on the corner, the technical college and St Mark’s Medical Centre; a road many see as one with not that many residential properties.
However, only time will tell if the new location will work.
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