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New purpose built community centre Netherfield |
- Client : The Access Centre
- Budget : £1m
- AJA were engaged to undertake a feasibility study to review the existing St Georges church and Victorian community centre in 1998. After a considerable amount of consultation with local people, the district council and the buildings' owners , it was decided that the community centre had reached the end of its useful life and so it was demolished to make way for the new centre.
- An enormous amount of local energy went into fund raising for the project, and final contributors included EMDA, The Community Fund, Gedling Borough Council, WREN and Surestart.
- The new building is used by groups who were in the old building; a resource centre, toy library, TOFS (a charity to help parents of children who cannot swallow) plus new users including a playgroup, karate, keep fit, an IT suite run by New College, offices for Surestart and a seminar room which is regularly hired out by local groups.
- The building has been of huge benefit to Netherfield. The architects have made it a very welcome, accessible and flexible space which has brought together a disparate collection of services across the area.
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