Thanks to derekscott1953 for alerting us to this:

As Joe Murray pointed out on an earlier version of this topic, the NHS Golden Jubilee University National Hospital in Clydebank was built in 1994 as a private facility by US firm, Health Care International, for £180 million. Located on the north bank of the River Clyde in the Dalmuir area, it sits along the waterfront near local industrial and utility infrastructure, including the regional wastewater treatment works for West Dunbartonshire and North West Glasgow.

At the time, the Labour leaders either as thick as the stuff in the ‘waste stabilisation ponds’ or caring little for their locals, were Tony Worthington (Labour MP for Clydebank and Milngavie) and Provost Patrick (Pat) O’Neill (Clydebank District Council leader/civic head).

Was there debate, any mention even in media, of the nearby upwind sewage treatment plant?

No evidence of any debate or media mention of the nearby Dalmuir Wastewater Treatment Works (WWTW) in connection with the planning, construction, or opening of the HCI/Golden Jubilee hospital in the late 1980s–1990s could be found online.

Odour complaints about the Dalmuir plant (“Dalmuir smell”) are well documented in later decades (especially after the major secondary-treatment and capacity upgrades around 2001–2003 and subsequent investments), with local residents, council involvement, and media coverage in the 2000s–2020s. These post-date the HCI hospital’s planning and opening and are not linked back to it in available sources.

Just how downwind of the raw sewage treatment is the hospital?

See this:

Less than 800m away, further than QEUH is from sewage, but ‘getting it‘ almost every day.

Getting what?

A substantial body of research documents that wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs / sewage works) emit bioaerosols containing bacteria, fungi, viruses, endotoxins, and opportunistic pathogens, and that these can pose health risks—especially via inhalation. Opportunistic pathogens (e.g., certain Aspergillus species that can cause invasive fungal disease, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria associated with healthcare infections) pose greater threats to immunocompromised individuals, those with chronic lung disease, or other high-risk groups. Fungal particles of respirable size are noted as capable of reaching the lower airways and causing infection in susceptible hosts. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11934199/

This is the second Scottish hospital built next to and downwind of, a sewage treatment plant, reported here.

Are there any other similar cases, in the UK? No. In Europe? No. The World? No. It seems to be a uniquely Scottish Labour council thing. God knows why. If you do too, meet me and hand me it in a plain brown envelope.

Footnote - Yes I see the sunflower nursery. I'm not taking the p here but it seems that human 'waste' - urine and the other - is regularly used to fertilise sunflowers - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139322001913