Dri Changes Leave Many Surrounding Businesses Fearing for Their Health ; When the Nhs Moved Most of Its Staff and Services Away From London Road, It Took with It Thousands of Customers for the Businesses Close to the Former Hospital. With Ambitious Development Plans Still On the Drawing Board, Oliver Astley Talks to Some of the Business People Left in Limbo.

Derby Evening Telegraph › July 22, 2009

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ONCE bustling with people, footfall has plummeted along the stretch of London Road close to the former DRI.

Plans for offices, shops, 450 homes , a multi-storey car park and a hotel and conference centre commissioned by Derby Hospitals NHS Trust are waiting for a developer to invest in the 20-acre site.

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Dri Changes Leave Many Surrounding Businesses Fearing for Their Health ; When the Nhs Moved Most of Its Staff and Services Away From London Road, It Took with It Thousands of Customers for the Businesses Close to the Former Hospital. With Ambitious Development Plans Still On the Drawing Board, Oliver Astley Talks to Some of the Business People Left in Limbo.

In the meantime, many surrounding businesses are struggling and need some life support.

Hardest hit by the drastically reduced numbers of hospital employees in London Road has to be The Florence Nightingale pub.

Landlord Aaron Gallagher used to work in the health records department at the hospital before taking over the lease of the pub jus...

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