Six levels in Green Lane plan

A six-storey daycare and outpatients building is proposed for Green Lane Hospital as part of its $50 million revamp.

The Auckland District Health Board this week takes its application to the Auckland City Council for a new building on the site as part of the $423 million health services plan.

The building at Green Lane will have three levels of basement car parking with 215 spaces and three clinical levels above the ground.

The area to be developed is south of the Costley Block, in an area excavated in 1969.

The building is proposed as part of the board's plan to split services - acute care at the Grafton site, and ambulatory and rehabilitation care at Green Lane.

Dr Nigel Murray, general manager of the health services delivery plan at the Auckland District Health Board, said the development was part of a $50 million overall plan for the site at Green Lane.

In its application to the council, to be heard on Friday, the board says the building would go "over an existing hole on the site which had been formed in anticipation of an extension to building four some years ago".

"The new building and vehicle access makes use of the existing excavation and retaining walls in this location, although further earthworks and excavation is required."

The board has made a non-notified resource consent application for the building, which will take 13 months to build.

Auckland District Health Board