Specialities have developed over the years, particularly in the Health Care sectors where we have been involved in work on about 30 Doctors Surgeries and about 35 new-build Nursing Homes in the last 25 years.
Our work in the region has involved us with continual work on old buildings, all of which need to be understood, cared for and helped to be adapted to current requirements. We find this work particularly interesting, not only for the challenge of sensitively handling difficult design challenges, but also for our responsibility as custodians for the future generations to ensure that the heritage of our buildings is not only conserved but is also interpreted and presented in a fitting manner.
Over the years we have been engaged on a number of Listed Properties and are aware of the special consideration and delicate handling these projects require.
We have built up relationships with other professionals to provide comprehensive design solutions on a wider scale where appropriate. This is particularly so in some of our larger commissions where large scale landscape design has made a significant contribution. In these projects we have worked closely with Landscape Architects and Town Planners, based in and around Preston. Such schemes as the master plan for the development of Ribble Village in Preston, an area re-habilitation project in conjunction with the DOE to develop 175 new and refurbished houses, a village green, shopping, doctors and dentist surgeries in a deprived area of Preston. A further development was the transformation of two 17 storey tower blocks of flats from vandalised Local Authority rented properties in Preston into 234 privately owned flats with wholesale remodelling and planting of the external areas to provide attractive and defensible communal areas.
By serving our very immediate community we are involved in all scales and types of development work. With our ongoing regional client base we are involved in projects regularly in the £ 1-1.5 M size and occasionally in the £ 5-10 M category.