Care Home

Work has begun on a new 75 bed care facility in Dartford, Kent, with York-based DWA Architects providing construction drawings for the project.   Working on behalf of main contractor Horizon Construction, the new facility will make use of a redundant site to provide a contemporary care home facility. The site is the former West Hill hospital at the junction of King Edward Avenue and West Hill.   David Ward, Managing …

York-based DWA Architects has just started work on a new 30-bedroom care site in Leicester, in the grounds of an existing care facility.   Working on behalf of main contractor Pacy and Wheatley, the Minster Care facility will add to the existing dementia specialist complex, Diamond House, located five miles out of the City Centre.   David Ward, Managing Director of DWA Architects, said: “This project highlights our strong capabilities …

   York-based DWA Architects has secured planning permission to transform a vacant office building into a state-of-the-art assisted living complex in Peterborough for adults with learning difficulties.   On behalf of Precious Homes, DWA had to creatively retain the locally listed frontage, whilst designing two new buildings, to create 24 assisted living homes.   The new homes, located on Eastfield Road, will help support adults with learning difficulties and will …

Construction of a specialist, state-of-the-art, nursing and dementia care home in Sleaford, designed by York-based DWA Architects, has just been completed and planning permission has been granted to build another 20 bedrooms to the home.   Designed on behalf of the Glenholme Senior Living, and built by construction company Goldfinch Developments, Holdingham Grange is a £5.2 million, specialist care development. The recent planning permission will result in the facility having …

Leading care home designers, DWA Architects, recently hosted a delegation of Chinese Government officials to one of its successful care home projects in the UK.   Organised by the Department of International Trade, it follows extensive work that York-based DWA Architects has undertaken in China over recent years.   The delegation visited the Victoria Care Centre in Park Royal, West London, to highlight the best of care home design in …

Two York firms have worked on delivering a new specialist care home site in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.   DWA Architects and WA Consulting Engineers were key members of the project team that worked on the Bupa-operated Goldbridge luxury care home, which has just opened to its first residents.   The 64-bed care home provides nursing, residential and dementia care and features a cinema, beauty salon and special landscaped gardens …