We are redeveloping the Town Square to create an attractive new public space in the heart of Barking. The new development will provide new homes, shops, offices, leisure facilities and a new learning centre.
The key elements of the development are:
The Lifelong Learning Centre (LLC) centre is at the heart of the Town Square project and is being funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government, the University of East London, Barking College and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
The aim of the LLC is to provide improved public library services, widen participation in learning and enable health, social care and education professionals to develop and grow. The LLC will also become a centre of excellence for education and skills development for key workers in the public sector.
The range of facilities on offer at the LLC will include a host of classrooms for adult learning, gallery space, Library Express Service, Children's Library and a Toy Library leading to a library garden, an atrium, Reference Library, lecture theatre, bookshop, training rooms and crèche.
An 11 storey building, fronting on to Ripple Road, and consists of shops at ground level with 54 2-bed flats above.
A curved edged building running from Ripple Road into the Town Square. It will contain shops at ground level with 4 floors of offices above.
A Garden Housing area will be constructed above the Library and Learning Centre, comprising 6 floors of 206 flats.
A 14 storey building comprising 4 storeys of car parking and 10 storeys of flats above behind the existing library. The car park will consist of 141 surface and basement spaces.
Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Developer: Urban Catalyst (Redrow Homes)
Work has begun on the innovative new Lifelong Learning Centre (LLC) and Central Library which was on the site of the new LLC, has temporarily moved to Vicarage Field Shopping Centre.
Urban Catalyst (Redrow Homes) and their construction partner Wates, are working to meet the Council's timetable for the opening of the Lifelong Learning Centre in January 2007, when Central Library will also return to the Town Square. The Garden Housing Scheme above will be complete by the end of 2008.
Julie Davis
Regeneration Manager
3rd Floor
Crown House
6 Linton Road
Barking
IG11 8HG
Supported by B and D Direct:
Tel: 020 8215 3000
Fax: 020 8227 5184
Textphone: 020 8227 5755
E-mail: 3000direct@lbbd.gov.uk
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