Key priorities
Health facilities
Health facilities are high priority - two phased approach so health facilities come first:
- Rehousing GPs & health care facilities is key
- Health and care services meet the needs of the community now and in the future
Community
- Bring together multiple facilities to create an integrated community feel
- Flexible and integrated space that includes all sectors of the community
- Provision of public services and facilities that attract entrepreneurs
- Community use of both sites to be retained and enhanced for people of all ages
- WBW should generate local business to give back to the community
- Develop the library as a social and learning hub, cultural centre, & economic enabler
Buildings
- High quality design – consider environment, climate change and pandemic proofing
- High quality landscaping and architecture
- Inclusion of a new town square or plaza
- Ensure building style fits with Weybridge street scene
- Retention of green spaces and natural open views from buildings
- Buildings sympathetic to park landscape and have paths to link areas
- Use of sustainable technologies to create a greener environment
Location
- Preference for health centre to be located on the north site
- Youth facilities better placed on the south site
- Need good linkage between sites, prioritising pedestrian links
- Install safe crossing point for pedestrians across A317
- Preference for library to be located as close as possible to other facilities
- Make use of existing green space in design
Parking
- Sufficient but not intrusive parking for both sites
- Undercroft parking for the health facility on the north site
- Ample drop off and pick up points for health facilities
- EV chargepoint provision
- Support for park and ride from Brooklands
Youth Provision
- Improve facilities for young people (ages 12 -17)
- Multi-purpose youth centre. Existing park keepers / toilet block on Churchfields recreation ground could be a good location
Housing
- Affordable, adaptable housing and extra care housing close to healthcare services
- Care leaver housing