Plans has been submitted for Worcestershire’s first ever radiotherapy facility.

Outline permission is being sought for a state-of-the-art radiotherapy centre at Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester.

Patients from across the county are expected to be treated at the site.

An exhibition of the proposed development will take place on September 5 at Worcester Guildhall, when people can speak to planning consultants from Halcrow Group and architects from Strategic Healthcare Planning.

A road show with the plans will also be at Kidderminster Hospital on September 15 and 16, at Redditch’s Alexandra Hospital from September 17 to 19 and at the Princess of Wales Community Hospital, in Bromsgrove on September 20 and 21.

Plans also include 12 parking spaces on land currently used as the hospital’s Accident and Emergency car park with a further 401 spaces on land adjacent to the hospital, off Charles Hastings Way, to replace the 209 spaces lost with the new building.

Mr Adel Makar, consultant urologist and lead cancer clinician at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “We are delighted that we have reached the planning approval stage as it means our plans to open the county’s radiotherapy facility by the end of 2013 are still on track.

“We know that there is huge interest in this project across the county. I hope that as many people as possible take the opportunity to look at the proposals for themselves as we are extremely keen to hear views on the development.”

The plans form part of the Worcestershire Oncology Project, which is working to develop a world class radiotherapy facility in Worcestershire and deliver almost all chemotherapy in the county.

Worcestershire Oncology Project is a joint project, with Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust working in partnership with NHS Worcestershire and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW).

Currently, due to historical cancer care arrangements, Worcestershire patients have to travel to Coventry, Cheltenham or Wolverhampton for their radiotherapy treatment.

The new arrangements will enable 90 to 95 per cent of radiotherapy and almost all chemotherapy to be delivered within Worcestershire.