Cullinan Studio has been granted planning permission to extend the Maggie’s centre which the practice designed for Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital.

It said the centre, which opened in 2013, had supported more than 100,000 people living with cancer – or their friends and family members – over the past six years, and that an extension was urgently required to meet demand for its services.

Cullinan said the L-shaped building would grow by around a third with the addition of new support spaces, counselling rooms, a new courtyard and an extended roof garden.

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