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Beggarwood Community Centre opened in early 2018 and had its conception during the community masterplanning exercise for Beggarwood Park, in south west Basingstoke. With a floor area of around 200 square metres, it provides spaces for community activities and meetings by local groups. The accommodation was derived from the priorities identified by local interest groups through an extensive consultation process. This stated that the scheme should be designed to blend in with the natural landscape and have separate individually-serviced function spaces, each with views over the park. One area is now used as a hall for hire for pilates classes, community groups and the brownies. The [...]

Dove House School, a secondary school for children with moderate learning difficulties, has seen continuous growth in pupil numbers and has consequently suffered from a significant shortage of suitable space. This has resulted in the use of four blocks of single storey ‘Portakabin style’ temporary buildings, containing nine classrooms. These have offered poor access, non-compliant with the standards advised in BB102, coupled with inadequate support spaces to serve a school of this size. After undertaking feasibility exercises and consultation with the local Authority, Macallan Penfold proposed a new two-storey building, with a floor space of 960 square metres, that will allow the temporary buildings to be [...]