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Outline plans and images September 2008 We have, behind the Church, a meeting room and two portakabins that, along with the Church itself, currently provide accommodation that allows us to carry out all our Church related activities. This has been the case for a number of years and the portakabins are well passed their ‘use by date’ and desperately need replacing. We plan to keep the existing meeting room and replace the portakabins with a modern, accessible, single building with consideration given to the use of renewable energy sources and sustainable materials. The building has been designed to provide flexible space so that different activities will be able to take place at the same time. A replacement building will support the following activities; - A café area - A space for recreation, church parties, socials, etc - Work with the elderly (over 55’s club, etc) - Work with children and young people - Small meeting and conference facilities - A venue for alternative worship - Space that could be easily made available for local community groups; - Office facilities Anthony Short & Partners, our Architects, have designed a building, which is sympathetic to its location, taking full advantage of its natural surroundings and forming a central courtyard, which will act as a focal point for the Church. The plans show the ‘new’ building in context to the existing Church and grounds. The building has been designed to be constructed of a steel frame on piled foundations with stone walling at lower levels, to relate to the Church, with timber or sheet metal cladding at high level (backing onto Rhodesia Road). The roof will be of a low pitch made from aluminium with a moss covering – a ‘green’ roof - to fit in with its natural environment. Windows are to be aluminium, for low maintenance, with insulated units. It is intended to use ground source heat pump technology integrated into the pile foundations to provide heating to the building, incorporate rainwater harvesting and solar panels to provide hot water – finance permitting. I hope that you will agree that the design, produced by the Architect and agreed by the PCC, meets the needs of our Church and if you want to discuss the building in more detail you can contact myself or a member of the Sub-development Committee – Emma Atkinson, Matt Barnes, Bernard Blanksby, Angela Gregory, Phil Johnson, Karen and Phil Riley or a member of the PCC.  Floor plan  Plan showing Church and Centre  North East elevation North East elevation  North West elevation  North West elevation
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