The controversy over the Oslo hospitals has been raging for a number of years. The fronts became no less steep when the government decided to overtake Oslo municipality and local opposition to force the plans through. The plans are briefly based on the following: Ullevål will be closed down. And new hospitals will be built at Gaustad and Aker. “Everyone” wants Aker Striden’s core has been the closure of Ullevål and the dimensions of the new hospital at Gaustad, where Rikshospitalet is already located. “Everyone”, on the other hand, wants Aker. The most important reason is that the population in Groruddalen will then get their local hospital back. The old hospital at Aker was closed down in 2011. The inhabitants of the districts of Alna, Grorud and Stovner are now parish to an occasionally blown up Ahus in Lørenskog. GAUSTAD: The Planning and Building Agency still believes that the new hospital in connection with Rikshospitalet will also be too large. The maximum height has been reduced from 76 to 55 meters from the original plans. Photo: The design group Nye Rikshospitalet To take the sting out of some of the criticism, the hospital at Gaustad has shrunk during the planning. Aker has been released Aker has also been released. Among other things, it has been decided to gather all intoxication and psychiatry here. And now the criticism also hits Aker with full force. Oslo Municipality’s foremost experts are not gracious: There may be traffic chaos in Trondheimsveien. The area is marred by massive and monotonous buildings. Long-term psychiatric patients have to live with noise, bad air and little outdoor space. MONOTON: Long and monotonous facades are some of the criticisms from the Planning and Building Agency. Illustration: Team Aker Too little space The state’s plan for the hospitals has been under consultation this spring and summer. In its consultation statement, the Planning and Building Authority concludes that they cannot recommend the plans. – There is too little space for the large hospital that is proposed, the agency writes. In other words, exactly the same criticism that has hit Gaustad. CRITICAL TO AKER: Department director Harald Øvland in the planning and building department. Photo: Ellen Stokland According to department director Harald Øvland, Helse Sør-Øst has pushed too much area into the Aker site. – They have not managed to create good urban spaces, where it is pleasant to walk or stay. – It could have been much better if the psychiatry is not added to Aker, and the building stock becomes less massive towards the urban spaces, he says. Unsuitable for psychiatry? Oslo University Hospital and Health South-East have decided that all hospital treatment of intoxicants and psychiatry in OUS will be gathered at Sinsenkrysset. At Gaustad there is no room. But there is also no room at Aker, according to plan and building. – The plot is basically not very suitable for long-term patients. It is related to noise, air pollution and scarce outdoor areas. Long-term patients live there in practice, Øvland points out. THE CRAZY CROSS. The Aker site is located north of Sinsenkrysset and Ring 3 (left in the photo). Trondheimsveien across the top. Illustration: Team Aker Trade union representative for the psychologists at the Oslo hospitals, Birgit Aanderaa, says that she is incredibly happy that the planning and building department is so clear. CRITICAL TO AKER: Corporate shop steward for the psychologists at the Oslo hospitals, Birgit Aanderaa. Photo: Bård Nafstad / news Professionals have long argued that treatment of mentally ill patients should not take place directly at one of the country’s largest traffic machines. – Our patients do not get enough space inside or outside. The government should listen to the trade unions and professionals. This project will not be good, says Aanderaa. Can not ignore the criticism Aker Hospital Friends has long warned that the hospital they are fighting to get back will be too large. They believe that the state can no longer ignore the criticism. AKER’S FRIENDS: Maren Rismyhr in Aker Hospital Friends wants the local hospital for Groruddalen back, but not the hospital that has been proposed. Photo: Hallgeir Braastad / news – Not least because of this with psychiatry. More and more people have discovered this, says leader of the friends association and Red politician Maren Rismyhr. – It is not possible to place the entire Oslo psychiatry along Ringveien in the area exposed to noise and dust, she says. According to Rismyhr, the solution is to preserve Ullevål, shelve new Gaustad, but let long-term psychiatric patients stay at old Gaustad, and build less at Aker. – Aker must be scaled down so that Groruddalen gets its local hospital back. There has been room for that before, and there is room for that in the future, says Maren Rismyhr. Requires tram Another concern is that the hospital receives poor public transport coverage. Both the Planning and Building Authority and Ruter believe that the tram south of Sinsenkrysset must be extended north to Aker. – It is necessary to establish trams for the hospital to have good enough public transport accessibility, says Harald Øvland. – Now this is a state plan, so the state can adopt the hospital without a tram. What happens then is that there will be a bad traffic situation. – Chaos in Trondheimsveien? – Chaos in Trondheimsveien, for many who use a car, for long travel times, says Øvland. Congestion Health South-East’s solution is to push on with buses. Ruter points out that the tram already today almost goes to the hospital and that the obvious solution is to extend the tram tracks. Routes already have plans for twice as many departures on the tram as far as it goes. CRITICAL TO AKER: Head of planning and infrastructure in Ruter, Bjørn Oscar Unander. Photo: Olav Juven / news But more buses, more trams and in the worst case also more cars, there is simply no room in Trondheimsveien, warns Ruter. – There will be problems with accessibility and congestion at stops, says Bjørn Oscar Unander, head of planning and infrastructure in the company. He reminds that not only a hospital will be built at Aker, but also a new city emergency room. Too small plot That the criticism in the east of the city increases in strength does not mean that it has subsided in the west. According to the Planning and Building Agency, the Gaustad plans have improved on some points since the previous round, but the basic problem remains. – We have always believed that the proposal to expand the hospital at Gaustad is too massive. – Or put another way, that the plot is too small, says department director Andreas Vaa Bermann. Will not comment It is Health South-East that has made the plans, the Ministry of Health that has sent them for consultation and the Ministry of Local Government that will adopt them. None of them will comment on the criticism as long as the hearing is ongoing. The City Council issues the Oslo municipality’s final consultation statement just over the summer.
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The Planning and Building Agency slaughters the plans for new Aker hospitals – news Oslo and Viken – Local news, TV and radio
