Local residents will be able to talk to the members of the Practice, doctors and the design team and study draft plans for the new facility, which will replace the surgery's existing premises on Castle Road.

The proposed new centre will be just a few hundred yards away off Colliery Road and will provide 21st century primary care for the Practice’s 9,300 patients.

Specialist medical centre developer Matrix Medical, of Birmingham, is proposing a 25,000 sq ft facility, which will consist of GP and nurse consulting rooms, treatment rooms, a minor operations suite and accommodation for the North East Wales NHS Trust to include district nurses and health visitors, plus additional office space for the practice.

Matrix Medical was appointed two years ago to assist the practice in acquiring a site and developing a new surgery. Matrix Medical has worked closely with Wrexham County Borough Council on the project, which has the full support of Wrexham Local Health Board.

A doctors' practice has operated from its present, listed Georgian building in Castle Road since at least the end of the Second World War and has been a group practice for nearly as long. Since then, it has expanded rapidly and now comprises 8 GPs, a nursing team of three and some 18 support staff.

Dr Greaves commented: "We have recognised for some time the deficiencies of our current surgery premises. We simply do not have enough rooms to accommodate the number of clinical practitioners and it is making it difficult to provide the range of services we would wish to. Unfortunately, our existing building is incapable of being extended or converted further."

He added: "We hope that the people will understand our need for new premises and that our draft proposals will be supported."

Practice Manager, Keith Benning, said the open evening would give residents the chance to get a good idea of the services the Practice wants to offer the town.

"It's an opportunity for people to come along and have a look at what we hope to do. We'll have all the plans available and members of the practice and the design team, including Matrix Medical and the architects, will be on hand to answer questions. We want to be able to offer our patients a fully integrated primary health care service of the kind envisioned in the Welsh Assembly Government’s strategic health plans. A new medical centre will be a significant step towards fulfilling that ambition."