There were protests outside the surgery before it was eventually closed and demolished THE site of a demolished doctors’ surgery could become council housing instead of student flats. The prospect was raised by councillors at a planning committee meeting yesterday last week as they discussed the old Willow Surgery site, in Bevendean. The owner of the plot, in Heath Hill Avenue, on the corner of Auckland Drive, has planning permission for student flats with 24 bedrooms. A condition of the planning permission, granted on appeal in May 2015, required a temporary surgery to be built – on neighbouring Farm Green – during construction of the flats.