ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
Powerful precedent for historic NHS site
Richard Coe, Project director, Kajima Partnerships, explains how a fascinating historical site, and a close working relationship between Kajima, Sir Robert McAlpine, and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, helped unlock the estate modernisation of the Springfield University Hospital site in Wandsworth. The 82-acre site was virtually all within NHS ownership, with most of the buildings, except for a number of impressive Victorian Grade 2 listed buildings, and some newer Trust facilities, in need of demolition. Springfield Village is the result – a new community where new mental health facilities are expected to be delivered from 2022 onwards.
South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) is the main provider of mental health services for adults, older people, children, and adolescents, living in the London boroughs of Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton, and Wandsworth. The Trust provides inpatient, outpatient, and community services, and forensic services for people with mental health problems who have been through the criminal justice system. It is the site of much important work in the UK, providing services for deaf children and adults, eating disorder services for children and adults, and services for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive and body dysmorphic disorders. The Trust is among the UK’s most diverse providers of mental health services, providing care and treatment for around 20,000 people each year, and serving a local population of one million residents. In partnership with a number of universities, it also provides education, training, and research.
Constrained by ageing buildings The Trust’s mission is ‘making life better together’, and its values are: 'respectful, open, collaborative, compassionate, and consistent'. However, it has long been constrained by the buildings that house its current inpatient facilities, in that they are not fit for modern mental healthcare
Figure 1: The Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (as it was known) – now the Main Building at Springfield - was opened on 15th June 1841 – the date celebration is visible in the brickwork.
provision. This is particularly the case at Springfield, where the majority of the existing facilities were constructed in the 19th century; the Main Building (Fig. 1) dates back to 1840. So, the Trust faces a challenge, as it must provide new mental health facilities for its service-users to deliver ‘Parity of Esteem’ – the principle via which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health.
Comprehensive competitive dialogue process
Figure 2: The ‘Annexe for Idiot Children’, now the Elizabeth Newton Building. 18
STEP, a 50:50 joint venture between Kajima Partnerships and Sir Robert McAlpine Capital Ventures, was appointed as the master developer for the South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust Estate Modernisation Programme (EMP) in September 2017, after a comprehensive competitive dialogue process. In its role as master developer, and in collaboration with the Trust, STEP has developed and co- ordinated the design of the new mental health facilities, and sold NHS surplus land and listed buildings to Barratt London and City & Country. To enable this, the JV developed a detailed phasing plan that prioritises the construction of the mental health facilities, private and affordable housing, much-needed restoration of the listed buildings, and the building of a 32-acre public park for the whole community to use and enjoy. STEP has facilitated an energy solution that will convert the basement of the curtilage
JULY 2020 | THE NETWORK
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