New images show progress on demolition of Old Royal Hospital

Demolition on the former hospital building began last year

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New pictures show significant progress on the project to demolish the old Royal Liverpool Hospital. The demolition of the former hospital on Prescot Street began in 2023, after the New Royal Liverpool Hospital opened in 2022 following years of delays and problems. DSM Demolition, a Birmingham-based demolition specialist, is carrying out the work, which is expected to conclude in 2026.

The Trust has previously stated an ambition to bring forward more world class healthcare and bioscience facilities on the campus, with an emphasis on training, education, research and innovation, which will further benefit our patients and staff as well as strengthening partnership work with other institutions in the Knowledge Quarter and wider city.

In October 2023, the Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust and the University of Liverpool announced an agreement to advance plans for an Academic Health Sciences Campus on the site of the former Royal. Pictures taken on Friday November 8 show continued progress on the demolition of the old hospital, with large cranes pulling down substantial parts of the building.

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Following the demolition, the next phase will address access route requirements and site landscaping and start the process of delivering the long-term site development plans.

Back in April, people were alarmed when a video circulating on social media showed a huge dust cloud emerge from the site after a large tower at the former hospital's Duncan Building collapsed. A spokesperson for the hospital trust said at the time that the collapse was controlled and was part of the planned demolition process.