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A health centre will expand to meet “increasing visitor and staff demand”.

Sunderland City Council approved plans for an extension to Springwell Health Centre.

The expansion will provide seven new consulting and treatment rooms, a larger waiting area and additional toilet facilities.

Supporting documents submitted earlier this year said the facility on Springwell Road, was “running at near capacity”.

The request for expansion came from NHS Property Services and local staff to help “meet the increasing visitor and staff demand”, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

The extension will be located within the south-east section of the site at two separate heights.

There would be up to 29 practitioners on-site with 49 available car parking spaces after the development is complete.

The council’s transportation development team said there were “no objections from a highway safety point of view”.

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