Mr. Simon McGarr:

A hospital building built today will not last 299 years but the lease allows for the premises to be solely used for the purpose of the usage in the lease, which is a hospital and a specific kind of hospital, namely a maternity hospital. There is a clause which allows for an interregnum for repairs or other works such as are required to ensure that the hospital can continue, which would be generally acknowledged to include such works as are needed to ensure that if the hospital is to be replaced, rebuilt or refurbished its closure would not be a breach of the lease. However, it is the case that the lease does not allow for any other purpose for the site. If another purpose were to start to be imposed on this building in the future it is open to the landlord to take action on that to ensure the use is returned to the permitted one.