Working in partnership, Watford Football Club’s Community Sports and Education Trust, Harrow Council and LOM secured government funding and planning permission for the £4.2m community and youth centre in 2008.
The centre provides a sports hall, gym, café, social space, all-weather pitch and play area. Inspired by its context within a public park, it features green roofs, timber louvres and stone gabion walls. The energy-efficient design features a solar wall and rainwater harvesting system.
The project won two LABC Building Excellence Awards in 2013 for Best Community Building and Best Sustainable Project.
The centre has been a huge community success, and so the Trust reappointed LOM to add an extension that was in keeping with our original design. Completed in February 2019, it provided additional workshop and meeting space for local groups.
