The new St Peter’s Health Centre in Brighton has now been fully open to patients since last summer, and the practice is operating very successfully from their new premises.
The building is a steel framed structure with a varied brickwork exterior and set back top floor, clad in standing seam zinc. The design was required to ‘stitch in’ with a historic parade of shop fronts along Oxford Street, including a locally listed heritage asset.
The health centre delivers 26 clinical rooms, a multi-purpose group room and associated administration areas. There will hopefully also soon be an integrated pharmacy to occupy the awaiting dedicated space and street frontage.
A BREEAM excellent rating was required to comply with NHS funding requirements.
As a phased project, so that the practice could remain open throughout, it faced several challenges including the insolvency of the main contractor and the logistics of delivering a complex building on a tight urban site. The completed health centre has emerged as a much-needed positive force for healthcare in the city centre.
We are proud to have been involved throughout and a huge well done to all who assisted in getting it over the line.
For more healthcare projects similar to the St Peter’s Health Centre, see our Storrington Medical Centre and Trinity Medical Centre project pages.