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Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:29
Eyesore on point of demolition
High Barnet’s long-standing blot on the landscape, the derelict nurses’ home on the Marie Foster Centre site, is finally about to be demolished.
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Friday, 01 March 2019 14:59
Demolition to start soon at Marie Foster site
Resident guardians who have had temporary homes in the former Marie Foster Centre in Wood Street, Barnet, are moving out following the approval of plans to build a 100-room care home on the site.
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Tuesday, 23 October 2018 18:07
Plea to save historic plaque
Barnet’s pioneering role in the development of care for young people suffering from multiple sclerosis has one lasting memento – a plaque commemorating the opening of the Marie Foster Centre by the Duchess of Gloucester in November 1973.
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Monday, 08 October 2018 13:32
Care home to replace Barnet’s blot on the landscape
A planning application has now been submitted to Barnet Council for a large-scale private care home for the elderly on the Marie Foster site in the heart of the Wood Street conservation area.
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Wednesday, 04 July 2018 07:39
When Barnet pioneered multiple sclerosis care
Most High Barnet residents are familiar with the Marie Foster Centre – awaiting demolition for redevelopment – but few probably realise that when opened in 1973, the 30-bed hospital in Wood Street was the first purpose-built home in the country for young people suffering from multiple sclerosis.
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Wednesday, 04 July 2018 07:27
£22 million care home for Marie Foster site
Local residents and nearby businesses are to be consulted over a plan to build a 100-bed care home for the elderly on the site of the former Marie Foster Centre in Wood Street, Barnet.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:27
Care home for elderly to replace Barnet eye-sore
After lying abandoned and derelict for years the former nurses’ home in Wood Street, Barnet, is to be demolished to make way for a new care home for the elderly to be built on the Marie Foster care home site.
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Wednesday, 27 December 2017 12:22
Changing face of High Barnet
Big new housing developments such as Elmbank, opposite the Arkley public house, are changing the face of High Barnet – and plans are likely to be presented during 2018 for several more sizeable schemes.
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Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:03
Abandoned Marie Foster home could become GP surgery
Feasibility study begins on future use of abandoned Marie Foster Home: could it become the site of a new GP surgery for High Barnet?
Having been High Barnet’s most notorious blot on the landscape for the last decade, a future use for the long-derelict Marie Foster Home and surrounding land is at last being considered by NHS Property Services.
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