After a long wait there appears to be some movement on the two remaining oval Hospital Wards. Esperance and Derwent Wards have sat empty and open for vandals for the past 20 years. The early history of vandalism was the illegal removal of the copper pipes and kitchen and other fittings, The price of copper and the lack of security in the early 2000’s made this easy, but cause a tremendous lot of damage to the internal walls.

A number of great ideas by would be entrepreneurs were put forward for this oval section which was originally wrapped around the sporting oval, now Woolworths Supermarket, however each idea failed to proceed due to the lack of funds and a lack of due diligence of the owners.

Many locals have described these two double story Wards, and the two single story Wards as an eye sore. Both single wards were deliberately lite and destroyed