HDP Architects

Steve Batson - Managing Director

A qualified Architect with 13 years post-qualification experience, Steve joined the Healthcare Design Partnership at the company’s foundation as its first employee in 2004.  Over the subsequent four years Steve has developed with the company and became Managing Director in 2007. Under his direction HDP is a specialist healthcare architectural team of eighteen which deliver projects within the Primary, Secondary and Community Care health sectors.

He has experience of buildings in the industrial, commercial and leisure sectors but throughout his career has been particularly committed to the design of healthcare facilities and other buildings which fulfil social needs.

His experience covers work in both the public and private sectors with extensive experience in Primary and Secondary Healthcare projects, which include LIFT and PFI Doctors Surgeries, various schemes at Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool including an Operating Department, Health Retail developments at Addenbrooke Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital, new Education Centres at Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn and Fairfield Hospital, Bury and Palliative Care Unit at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.

More recently, Steve led the Team to successfully win the 3 year Architectural Framework at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust assisting the Trust in a £70m redevelopment programme incorporating a £12m modular ward development, Infrastructure enabling works and various ward upgrades.

Other schemes in Community Care health sectors which Steve has been responsible for include; a specialist over 65 apartments, a combined dementia/care home in Surrey for Maria Malliband, Listening for Life Centre for the Ear Trust, Wheelchair Assessment Centre, Forget-me-not Children’s Respite Hospice, Northern Police Convalescent & Treatment Centre and Doncaster NHS 6 Facet Survey Audits.

"To get on his good side just buy him chocolate!"