Florence Nightingale's name will be secured in Derby forever with plan for Derbyshire Royal Infirmary site
DETAILS of a development that will forever secure the connection between Florence Nightingale and Derby were being revealed in Cannes.
A new "urban village" including 300 homes for rent will be built on the site of Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, whose forerunner, the Derbyshire General Hospital, the celebrated nurse helped redevelop. Plans for a new Morrisons supermarket, creating 300 jobs, and two other housing developments are also in the pipeline.
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Nightingale Quarter plan for the DRI site
On Wednesday, at the Cannes international real estate festival, it was confirmed that Derby Hospitals NHS Trust has agreed to sell eight acres of land to developer UK Regeneration, which is drawing up a planning application for the site.
And it was also confirmed that the whole area to be transformed would be known as the Nightingale Quarter in tribute to the famous Crimean War nurse.
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John Rivers, chairman of the Florence Nightingale Derbyshire Association and chairman of Derby's hospitals, said: "I'm doubly delighted by this development. Florence Nightingale founded the nursing profession."
The scheme will preserve two towers that formed the end of early-1900s wards and statues of Florence and Queen Victoria.
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9 Comments
by oreo89
Sunday, March 17 2013, 5:36PM
“@Http_404 - actually the quarter is in reference to a quarter-mile square area.”
by SarahL123
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 12:22PM
“@ hawke7
Taken from the other article on this project:
UKR chief executive Jackie Sadek said that the entire scheme would be "designed for letting from the outset".
She said: "We will develop privately rented homes for people who do not want to commit to home ownership, with superior quality and designs of homes that form a community."”
by hawke7
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 12:02PM
“House to rent by whom? it will probably turn into a extension of Normanton with all its associated problems.”
by DerbyBorn
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 10:21AM
“The fact will be that the concrete hospital will be so costly to demolish that there will have to be loads of houses sqeeezed onto the site in order to fund the removal of the hospital buildings.”
by DerbyBorn
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 10:18AM
“Ah yes - next to Westfield Township.
I wish the planners would go and look at the place in Dorset that HRH Prince Charles influenced. (Poundbury - http://tinyurl.com/c5hthda )”
by Pine_Martin
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 9:29AM
“by dianae
An urban village needs green spaces and mature trees."
Like 5 oak trees in leaky containers ?”
by Http_404
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 9:19AM
“A quarter is one fourth, 1⁄4, 25%, or 0.25
We now have at least 6 quarters, should it not be the Nightingale Sixth?”
by Http_404
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 9:19AM
“A quarter is one fourth, 1⁄4, 25%, or 0.25
We now have at least 6 quarters, should it not be the Nightingale Sixth?”
by dianae
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 8:26AM
“Urban village - sounds good. But why have that avenue of lovely mature trees near Liversage car park been chopped down? Have horrible feeling it will be because of multi storey car park ... very villagey, not.
The Westfield car park access is so poor it can not be used properly - so I can imagine some bright spark is building another car park in that area ..
An urban village needs green spaces and mature trees.”