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Here are some drone footage of the fully operational Skegness CDC! 🏥❄️

This new facility provides vital diagnostic services previously unavailable locally, including CT, MRI, echocardiograms, and dental X-rays—bringing convenient, timely care closer to home. It also offers a chemotherapy service, significantly reducing the need for patients to travel for treatment.

This remarkable project marks a significant achievement for the NHS and the Skegness community. We’re proud to have contributed to such an impactful development, now providing essential healthcare services that enhance access and improve the well-being of residents in the area.

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Work continues at Omega West despite snow fall.

Work continues, come rain or shine (or snow), at Omega West Industrial Unit 4. Through the wintery conditions, excellent progress is being made at the vast industrial distribution warehouses within the largest mixed-use development site in the North West.

Read more about our past work on the site.

Let it always be said of DSSR that we know how to keep Christmas well.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and the DSSR team across the UK knows how to celebrate! 🎄 Over the Christmas break, our offices were filled with festive cheer as our amazing colleagues from all our offices – Glasgow, Harrogate, London, Manchester, and everywhere in between – have been enjoying their Christmas nights out!

From glitzy dinners to cosy pub gatherings, there’s been laughter, festive jumpers, maybe a slightly dodgy Santa hat or two, and of course, plenty of Christmas spirit. It’s been fantastic to see everyone letting their hair down and enjoying some well-deserved fun outside the office.

A huge thank you to everyone at DSSR for another incredible year of hard work and dedication. These celebrations are a perfect reminder of what a fantastic team we have. Cheers to making memories and strengthening those bonds that make DSSR such a great place to work!

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at DSSR! 🎅🥂

Award Win at the Glasgow Institute of Architects Awards 2024

It’s always a great moment to see a project win an award. Last night, the St Andrew’s Drive Affordable Housing scheme won in the Large Residential award category at the Glasgow Institute of Architects Awards 2024.

“St Andrews Drive phases 2 and 3 are the concluding phases of a landscape-led approach to creating a development driven by the principles of NPF4. The project’s initial strategy was to integrate a mixed-tenure social and affordable housing development into the adjacent Pollokshields West conservation area.

“Preserving existing trees was a key objective whilst providing a series of urban villas set in a series of gardens that provide a holistic living environment for its residents. The project seeks to extend the neighbourhood’s sense of place into the new masterplan and knit the community together.”

As part of our support for NHS Forest, we were delighted to donate 4000 trees to Pinderfields Hospital site.

Utilising volunteers from within the Trust and the local community, several planting days were undertaken resulting in the trees being planted along the 900m perimeter of site.

Hedgerows are an integral part of the UK’s landscape, where not only are they complex ecosystems that make up the nation’s largest linear wildlife habitat, but they also offer a wealth of further benefits to their surrounding localities, including reduced flooding risk, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity enhancement, in addition to positive health impacts such as alleviating air pollution, heat regulation, and noise reduction, and wider social and operational contributions like visual amenity and enhanced security. Unfortunately, they are disappearing at an alarming rate, with over half the UK’s hedgerows having vanished since the post-war period, equating to around 118,000 miles lost.

The whips planted consist of a double run of mixed native broadleaf species over a length of almost one kilometre, in what is thought to be the longest new hedgerow created on an NHS site within England in recent times.

Space

To provide the greatest impact, the area the Trust chose for the new hedgerow was along the Northern and Eastern boundaries of the hospital. These are along the two most busy roads for the site; Bar Lane and Aberford Road. The distance spans around 900m (0.56 miles) in total, with varying ecology such as shady wooded areas and open grassland. Invasive species, such as cherry laurel, first required removal.

Health & Social Benefits

• Air quality improvements – absorption of pollutants such as nitrous oxides & particulate matter
• Noise/wind reduction – hedgerows attenuate noise and act as a wind break
• Security & privacy – segregating areas that can be utilised for wellbeing areas
• Reducing flooding/soil erosion – increased water retention, via slowing surface water run-off and extensive root networks help to maintain soil integrity
• Cooling/thermal regulation – hedges provide shade & reduce ‘urban heat island’ effects and issues like wind-chill

Environmental Benefits

The hedgerow consists of a double run of mixed native broadleaf, which will sequester carbon as it grows, and once established, it will significantly enhance biodiversity within the local area. A species rich hedgerow (11 spp.) has been created in which a huge array of lichens, insects, animals, and microorganisms will co-exist, providing nesting sites for birds and refuges for small animals, in addition to pollen, nectar, fruit, and leaves as a vital food source.