An outline development control plan, ODCP, for Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, is being prepared by the design team and is due for completion in September 2004. The preparation of this plan requires examination of all options for the hospital's redevelopment on the existing site, in accordance with an outline design brief prepared by the hospital's project team. The preferred option will allow for consideration of the phased redevelopment of the hospital — ensuring continuity of existing levels of service to patients — at the most economically advantageous cost. This will be the benchmark for all other redevelopment options. This approach has been taken in agreement with the Eastern Regional Health Authority, the hospital and the new Crumlin hospital group.