Patients battled to keep Willow House surgery open but it was eventually demolished A DEVELOPER planning to build student flats on the site of a popular GP practice wants to ditch plans to build a replacement doctors’ surgery. Heath Hill Student Developments said there would be a replacement for Willow House surgery - known as The Willows - which was torn down amid protests from patients. The company was granted permission for a 24-bed development on the site on Heath Hill Avenue, Bevendean, following an appeal. At the time, planning inspector Stephen Papworth said that a proposed new surgery had given “significant weight” to the appeal.