Grassroots in Memorial Park, by Eger Architects, is Newham’s second community resource centre. Like the first, The Hub, which opened in March 2005, the building is part of a wider strategic programme to provide access to improve the quality of life in a historically deprived area of East London. Both centres were developed on the basis that a well designed, sustainable, energy efficient building would contribute positively both to the people who use them as well as the wider neighbourhood.
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Greenwich Millenium Health Centre, Greenwich Peninsular, London
In a pioneering facility, healthcare and education are linked on one site, to provide fully integrated services for the newly resident population of the area, which is ethnically mixed and primarily made up of young city workers.
The health centre has been designed to cater for the full range of primary care, in line with current Government NHS policy to devolve services from hospitals to primary care facilities. It houses a two-GP practice with a patient list size of 4,000, as well as accommodation for Greenwich and Bexley Primary Care Trust staff, for out-patient services and for medical educational facilities.
The buildings create high quality, well designed and stimulating environments for specialist ICT training and are part of the Government's Excellence in Cities Initiative. Each of the centres is designed for up to 150 pupils at a time and serves secondary and primary schools in its area. The centres are also open in the evenings and weekends and are intended for wider use by the local community and furthermore to act as a 'beacon' of investment within their respective locations.
The buildings were completed to programme and cost in a very short construction period of 23 weeks. Alec French Partnership has recently been commissioned to design a third CLC for Bristol City Council.
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