Mulberry Park community hub gets planning

A new community hub at Mulberry Park in Bath designed by BDP has been given planning consent. The £10m building, for not for profit housing association Curo, located on a former MoD site will be home to a new primary school, children’s nursery and state-of-the-art community facilities.

The scheme is part of a distinctive, contemporary development of 700 new homes that will feature open spaces and high quality facilities for use by local residents.

Designed as a beacon for the local community, the striking buildings will be marked out from the new homes by distinctive perforated copper alloy panels. Large expanses of glass will create light-filled spaces on the ground floor including a café, meeting rooms and multifunctional spaces. The cantilevered second floor of the hub building will be home to an enterprise area providing lettable space for a range of businesses.

Project architect Chris Kenny said “This is a unique project which will become a focal point for the communities of Foxhill, Combe Down and Mulberry Park. There has been a lot of community engagement from the outset to ensure that the design provides facilities that the community will use and a building that they can feel proud of.”

Curo is working to bring on board partners to provide a range of services and activities for the new community hub when it opens in September 2018.