It is easier, quicker and cheaper to build on a green field.
It is always easier, quicker and cheaper to build on a green field. Builders like it, developers like it, financiers like it.
It is Government policy to develop in town brown field sites in preference to out of town green fields, especially for hospitals and other public buildings
To say that it is not possible to develop the St Stephens site into a state of the art hospital is just not true. The Povall Worthington report said the opposite in fact, but has been misquoted and then conveniently "lost" to support the move to Colney.