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Road closure: Great Ormond Street

15 Oct 2026, 12:08 p.m.

A tower crane is being deliver to the Children's Cancer Centre site on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October.

This means there will be a partial closure of Great Ormond Street between 4am Wed and and 10pm Thursday night and there may be some noise from the site. The crane will be onsite for around a year and a second crane will come on site in December.

Details of the activities are:

Wednesday 21 October 2026

  • 4am: Traffic Management set up - Establish the working area, set up road closure, signage, cones, and exclusion zones.
  • 5am to 9am: Mobile Crane set up and positioned for lifting operations, with the tower crane components delivered. Low noise expected.
  • 9am to 6pm: Tower Crane erection underway. There will be multiple delivery vehicles anticipated. Noisy works.

Thursday 22 October 2026

  • 8am to 5pm: Tower crane erection continues. Noisy works.
  • 5pm to 7pm: The mobile cane is dismantled and prepared for removal following completion of lifting operations. Noisy works.
  • 7pm to 9pm: Mobile crane removal process underway and completes by 9pm.
  • 8pm to 10pm: Traffic Management removed – Traffic Marshalls remove road closure signage, cones, and associated Traffic Management measures. No noise expected.
  • 10pm to 11pm: Site Tidy and Closure – Final site tidy and securing of the work area. No noise expected.

Thank you for your patience as we build our new Children's Cancer Centre.

Graphic of proposed new Children's Cancer Centre

Children's Cancer Centre

With eight clinical floors and a roof garden, the Children’s Cancer Centre will be a fantastic new facility at GOSH. The new centre means we are creating places where children can play, be active, learn and be with their family and friends while at hospital. It will make it easier for clinical team to be at their best, to innovate, discover and undertake research for the future. It will mean our facilities match our clinical ambitions and help children and families feel at home.

Find out more about the Children’s Cancer Centre.

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