Overview

Wimbledon Hill Park


Wimbledon, UK

Project type: Reuse of Historic Building & Place
Location: Wimbledon, UK
Client: Berkeley Homes (West London)
Stage: Completed
Programme: 2010–2013

The Wimbledon Hill Park project involves the redevelopment of Atkinson Morley, a former hospital in Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton.

The site is located within the Copse Hill Conservation Area and includes the locally listed hospital building set amongst mature trees.

The hospital was opened in 1869 as a convalescent hospital and it retained this use until WWII, when it became an internationally recognised neuroscience centre. After it was closed in 2003, the building remained vacant until the site was acquired by Berkeley Homes in 2010.

The majority of the hospital site consists of sports fields and open land which are part of the Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) that stretches south-westwards towards Cottenham Park Road. It includes open spaces for sport and recreation, a protected woodland, as well as a north-south footpath linking to the surrounding neighbourhoods.

Project Delivery

  • Extensive consultation with local residents and community groups gained widespread support for the development.
  • Redevelopment to create a new neighbourhood of 79 homes of new-build houses and apartments with the refurbishment and conversion of the existing locally-listed building.
  • Delivery of a masterplan which makes the original hospital building the central focus of the neighbourhood removing unattractive later buildings and creating a new entrance courtyard to frame the main frontage to Copse Hill.
  • A sensitive conversion of the existing hospital to provide a range of apartments, including duplex units taking full advantage of the larger windows and utilising the space within the former chapel.
  • Design of a range of new build houses and flats, with a variety of sizes and tenures, focussed around the retained building in a series of character areas which respond to the qualities of the adjacent conservation area, the extensive mature trees, the open grassland and the woodland areas.
  • Delivery of public facilities including a gym, sports pavilion and scout hut to support the uses of the Metropolitan Open Land.
  • Development of a strategy for the long-term management of the site’s open spaces through a Community Trust.

Awards

British Homes Awards 2018
Development Transformation of the Year - Shortlisted

Sunday Times British Homes Awards 2015
Development of the Year – Scheme of up to 25 homes

Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2018
Best Apartment (over 100)

Housebuilder Awards 2018
Best Refurbishment Project

Project type: Reuse of Historic Building & Place
Location: Wimbledon, UK
Client: Berkeley Homes (West London)
Stage: Completed
Programme: 2010–2013
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Project Team
Ian Fenn
Ian Fenn
Partner
Andrew Dobson
Andrew Dobson
Associate
Bill Sands
Bill Sands
Head of Visualisation
Joe Wood
Joe Wood
Design Manager
Tags
Conservation Area, Hospital, Housing, Mixed tenure, Reuse
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