DOCTORS and staff from a blaze-wrecked surgery hope to be in a temporary new home before Christmas.
Fire swept through Crosland Moor Health Centre, at Park Road West, after a trolley full of cardboard was set alight at the back of the adjoining Co-op supermarket in October.
A teenager was arrested on suspicion of arson and later bailed.
The GP practice has since been housed in temporary accommodation at St Luke's Hospital in Crosland Moor - but office workers there need their premises back.
The surgery's new home - a prefabricated building - was lowered into position in the hospital grounds yesterday by a 60-metre high crane.
Dr Viv Martin, a partner in the surgery, said: "I am sure it will be lovely when we move in.
"The electricity, gas, IT equipment, and telephones will be installed next week and the floor has to be laid.
"We hope it will be operational by Christmas."
The building will provide a temporary home until the two GPs decide where they should be permanently based.
The fire in October was the second in six years.
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