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2012… A Good Year for Associates

2012… A Good Year for Associates

We are delighted to announce the appointment of four new Associates as Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall begins its 25th year since formation in 1987. Two of the new Associates are architects, Stuart Franklin, a Newcastle University graduate, and Adam Vaughan, a Sheffield University graduate, who joined JDDK in 1999 and 2005 respectively, and bring… Full Article >

Design Award for Station Court

Design Award for Station Court

Your Homes Newcastle’s Station Court development off the Fossway in Walker has won a prestigious Lord Mayor’s Design Award 2011 in the Housing category. Designed by the Newcastle-based practice of Jane Darbyshire & David Kendall (JDDK) Ltd and constructed by Frank Haslam Milan (FHM), the £1.8m development provides dedicated supported housing for people with learning… Full Article >

Sue Ryder Secures Consent for  Peterborough Hospice at Grade 1 Listed Site

Sue Ryder Secures Consent for Peterborough Hospice at Grade 1 Listed Site

Working on behalf of national charity, Sue Ryder, the Newcastle-based practice of Jane Darbyshire & David Kendall (JDDK) Ltd has successfully gained planning permission to create a new 20 bedroom patient facility within the grounds of Thorpe Hall, a Grade I listed country house set within a Grade II listed landscape on the western edge… Full Article >

Big Ideas for Little People Wins Green Award

Big Ideas for Little People Wins Green Award

Barnard Castle’s new Children’s Centre has won the Built Environment category in the County Durham Environment Awards held on Monday October 10th in Durham. Funded by the third and final phase of the Governments’ Sure Start Development fund, which ended in March this year, and designed by award-winning Newcastle-based architects, Jane Darbyshire & David Kendall… Full Article >

External Refurbishments Revitalise Estate

External Refurbishments Revitalise Estate

Contractors, Frank Haslam Milan (FHM) have completed a £1.4m regeneration scheme on the Pottery Bank Estate in Walker as part of a framework agreement with Newcastle-based architects, Jane Darbyshire & David Kendall (JDDK) Ltd and their client, Your Homes Newcastle. Commencing in November 2010, the project was officially handed back to YHN with external refurbishments… Full Article >