HEALTH bosses have cancelled a planning application asking for alterations to the design of their £90million super-hospital after being told councillors would reject it.
Balfour Beatty, the developer of the single-site project at Queen's Park Hospital, asked for permission to alter some of the hospital designs approved by councillors last year.
The alterations included changing the material used on the roof from a dull grey to bright silver aluminium and making the buildings rectangular rather than curved.
The hospital claimed the alterations were made for "clinical operation purposes" But in a report to Thursday's planning and highways committee at Blackburn with Darwen Council, the new design is described as "unimaginative" and "not suitable for a building in such a prominent location."
Councillors were minded to refuse the amendments, which would have meant the hospital trust could start the building work but only with the original drawings.
A spokesman for Blackburn with Darwen Council said: "The application for the proposed amendments has been withdrawn at the request of the applicants, and councillors have been asked to disregard the report."
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