VISITORS to the University Hospital Llandough will soon benefit from a new Plaza area, featuring shops, a café, radio studio and art gallery.

A temporary entrance to the hospital has been built to allow construction to start on the Plaza, similar to the Concourse at the University Hospital of Wales. Visitors are asked to follow the road signs to this new entrance while work continues.

Phase One of the construction will include a new ambulance parking bay for the Medical Emergency Assessment Unit, a security lodge and the creation of studios for the hospital’s radio station Rookwood Sound.

The Plaza development is due to be completed in May 2015.

Geoff Walsh, Assistant Director of Planning, Capital, Estates and Operational Services at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, said: “This new Plaza development will be situated at the main entrance to the hospital, available for use by everyone working in and visiting the UHL site.

“As well as offering facilities such as a new café, information centre and public toilets, the Plaza will offer somewhere relaxing for all staff, patients and their friends and family to meet and socialise.”