Race Cottam Architects
Architect's aerial render of the new Babington Health Centre in Belper, showing a contemporary two-storey healthcare building with pitched roofs, light brick façades, landscaped courtyards, pedestrian pathways, and surrounding parking areas. The image illustrates the completed design prior to final landscaping and signage installation.Architect's aerial render of the new Babington Health Centre in Belper, showing a contemporary two-storey healthcare building with pitched roofs, light brick façades, landscaped courtyards, pedestrian pathways, and surrounding parking areas. The image illustrates the completed design prior to final landscaping and signage installation.

Babington Health Centre Belper

A new health centre in the heart of Belper’s UNESCO World Heritage site.

Aerial architectural render of the new Babington Health Centre in Belper, showing the proposed building within its surrounding townscape. The image highlights the health centre's pitched-roof design, landscaped grounds, parking, and pedestrian access, with neighbouring buildings shown as simplified white massing to illustrate how the development fits into the local context with Babington Hospital in the foreground.
Ground-level view of the new Babington Health Centre in Belper, showing the main entrance to the modern healthcare building. The light brick exterior, pitched roof, large windows, accessible entrance ramp are visible in bright daylight. The external landscaping is still being completed.
View of the entrance courtyard at the new Babington Health Centre in Belper. The image shows a landscaped central garden surrounded by two-storey light brick buildings with large windows and glazed entrances. Paved walkways connect the different parts of the health centre, creating a bright and accessible outdoor space.
Architect's render of the new Babington Health Centre in Belper viewed from the lower car park entrance. The image shows two connected two-storey healthcare buildings with light brick façades, pitched roofs, and large windows. A grassed area with planting and people enjoying the outdoor space is shown in the foreground, illustrating the welcoming setting and relationship between the building and its landscape.
Site photograph showing near completion of main entrance facade

Project info

The new health centre has been developed to improve the quality of the environment for patients and staff whilst enabling the rationalisation of the estate for the Trust. It provides 20 clinical spaces, treatment suite, physio gym, day centre and EMAS (East Midlands Ambulance Service) facilities alongside clinical staff and office space.

The site lies within the Belper conservation area, adjacent to a listed building and within the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage site. Through design development there has been collaboration with the Local Planning Authority, Historic England and the Conservation team.

The site also lies within Flood Zone 3, and we have liaised with the Environment Agency to establish flood resilience in the building design and site amendments such as strategic land remodelling.

Location

Belper

Client

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust

Main Contractor

Henry Brothers Construction

Cost

£15 million

Area

2,700 sq.m

Team

Eastwoods Consulting Engineers
Capital
EP Consulting
Eamonn Byrne Landscape

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