UNIVERSITY Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation has been granted planning consent for a new temporary building housing an operating theatre.
It will be in place on site in Tremona Road for the next five years, during which time existing theatres will be renovated.
It will sit on top of the roof of the North Wing of Southampton General Hospital.
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