Mixed use development: Cobridge Community Health Centre
Brief
A new health centre that improves local access to a wider range of primary and community care services, offering patients more choice and treating more people outside of hospital. New facilities include on-site pharmacy, chest clinic, specialist out-patients clinics, and X-ray. The new health facility needs to interact with its historic setting and the local church, and will help kick-start a wider programme of local regeneration.
Client: NHS Stoke on Trent
Location: off Elder Road and Church Terrace, Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent
Timescales:
Business Case approval: early 2010
On site: June 2010
Completed: October 2011
Challenges
Fit into the local landscape and be sympathetic to the nearby Christ Church.
Overcome poor ground conditions due to previous mining.
Solution
The new health centre is strategically split across two buildings to accommodate all services but reduce its impact on the local landscape and help it blend into the community. Extensive landscaping and planting also provides ‘green’ environmental space.
Ground issues were overcome by stabilising the site before construction, and each building incorporates a range of environmental features to maximise their future efficiency and minimise waste.
A programme of consultation and communications involving the client, users, and the community helped the scheme move smoothly through the planning stages and fostered a local sense of pride and ownership of the scheme.
Services
Service Planning. Development, including mixed use development. Integrated Design, including BREEAM assessments. Communications & Community Engagement. Financial & Legal. Construction Management. Facilities & Asset Management.
