Royal Marsden Hospital cancer patients could receive support from charity workers as they battle the deadly disease, if planning permission for a new centre is granted.

The client, Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust, proposes to a build the centre and six cycle spaces and spaces for seven cars between Sutton Hospital, Sycamore House, Cotswold Road and Bicknoller Close, where a staff car park and 17 Cotswold Road are currently located.

It also includes plans for a landscape garden.

Documents given to the council Thursday, May 4, claimed the green plot would ‘help visitors feel more relaxed and calm’.

It read: “The garden plays a vital role in creating a setting that is akin to an oasis in character and will make them more clam when approaching the centre after being inside the clinical, institutional environment of the hospital.”

The proposal continued: “The building is envisaged as a series of volume that staggers and rises as one moves further into the space.

“The staggered volume provides opportunities to insert clerestory windows to create views of the sky and animate the spaces with daylight and sunlight to create an atmosphere that is full of light and surprise.”

If approved the 385m2 site would be the one of the latest Maggie’s centres to open in the UK.

The organisation offers free advice and emotional support to people suffering from cancer, as well as families and friends of those affected by the illness.

The consultation period is due to end on Friday, June 2.

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