Recreation Ground, Community Building

Artist impression of Great and Little Plumstead Recreation Ground

Project Details

Client Great and Little Plumstead Parish Council
Location Circa 600 sqm
Size Circa 600 sqm
Sectors Community Leisure

Cannon Clarke Architects successfully won an open invitation to bid for a new community building for the Parish Council.

The brief aimed to enhance facilities at the recreation ground. Cannon Clarke Architects designed a solution that improves the aesthetic and functionality of the sports areas and public washrooms. Our design also accommodates the local Scout group and includes a new clubhouse for the local bowls club, both situated within the recreation ground’s boundaries.

We facilitated extensive stakeholder briefing sessions to establish a precise brief and agree on a schedule of accommodation. As a result, stakeholders decided to propose a single building to maximise efficiencies.

The proposed form resulted from how the 3 distinct uses interrelated. With the bowls club-house facing the bowls green, the Scouts facing their existing meeting hut and the sports changing rooms located adjacent to the pitches.

The building design articulates the 3 uses visually by virtue of the 3 facets of the roof form and subtle changes to the proposed external materials.

Further nuances of the design include a climbing wall for the Scouts, a visitors sports viewing terrace and a roof top terrace for the bowls pavilion.