Holmfirth based multi-award winning property developer Conroy Brook was this week announced as one of the top 3 contenders for the prestigious Pinders National Healthcare Design Awards for its Rowan Court development – a close care unit for the Hollybank Trust.

The awards were established in 1999 to promote and recognise the very best UK developments in all types of care-related property, and this is the second time that Conroy Brook has been nominated. In fact in 2005 the company won the award for Best New Development in the UK (Elderly Healthcare) for its White Rose Nursing Home in Holmfirth, successfully operated by Meridian Healthcare Ltd.

This time they are in the top 3 in the Independent Living category for Rowan Court – a £4million, 15-bed residential close care unit for young people with disabilities, commissioned by the Huddersfield based charity the Hollybank Trust.

Hollybank’s Chair of Trustees, John Hall, added: “We are delighted that our new building has been deemed worthy of a place in the final of the awards. As a brand new purpose built facility it enables us to provide a wonderful, caring environment for the young people who live there.”

Chief Executive of Conroy Brook, Richard Conroy, said: “Rowan Court is a well designed, efficient, modern close-care home for a very deserving cause, and so we are very pleased that the quality that we put in all our developments has been recognised by the judges.”

Hollybank is a charity with a national reputation for excellence; a unique and effective organisation, working with some of society's most vulnerable members – children and adults with complex physical disabilities. They specialise in caring for and developing these individuals through a combination of specialist schools, children’s homes and independent housing.

Conroy Brook, and award-winning architects Chris Carr Associates, designed Rowan Court – a three-storey building with one 5 bedroom apartment on each floor – in close conjunction with Hollybank to meet the Trust’s specific requirements for a modern, purpose built ‘state of the art’ close care facility, which would meet and exceed all current legislation regarding the young people’s needs.

The development will now be visited by one of the awards judging panel before the actual announcement of the winners at Lords Cricket Ground on the 25 March.

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Added On: 21st January 2010

 

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