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Willesden Green Library redevelopment
As part of our commitment to provide a cultural and service delivery hub in the south of the borough, and libraries that are fit for the twenty-first century, we are building a new multi-use centre.
Willesden Green Cultural Centre
Working with Galliford Try, the new 'Willesden Green Cultural Centre', as it will be known, is expected to open its doors in the spring of 2014, providing residents with a state of the art library and cultural centre.
View Galliford Try's Willesden Green Cultural Centre website for full proposal details and images.
View the plans
The planning application to redevelop Willesden Library and replace it with a new state of the art cultural centre has been submitted by Galliford Try.
For the past few month residents have met with council officers and Brent's development partner, Galliford Try, to hear the council's plans, understand the issues around decisions for the design and have a say on the application that has now been submitted.
The full planning application is available to view on the councils planning portal site and there will be an exhibition of the planning application proposals at the Willesden Green Library Centre from Tuesday 22 May 2012.
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What will be in the centre?
As well as a brand new library with access to millions of books and council services, residents can look forward to a cultural centre that will include a:
- children's library
- customer contact centre
- museum
- special exhibition gallery
- education room
- community gallery
- computers, free wireless broadband and study space
- archive store
- cafe
- three creative cluster spaces which will be designed to accommodate a host of artist and cultural programmes
- office space.
Services during the redevelopment?
The redevelopment will start in September 2012 when an interim library service will be put in place.
You will be able to visit the Grange Road offices where a temporary lending service will be located providing access to the full collection of books, as well as PCs and study spaces.
Additional study and work spaces will be located in the area as well as in nearby libraries.
We will also provide an alternative location for customer services in the south of the borough during the redevelopment.
Our vision
Willesden Green Cultural Centre will be a building at the heart of its community, in every sense.
Actively welcoming people in all their diversity, it will be a social space, a place full of life, energy and fun that will support and celebrate creativity and imagination, and allow knowledge and ideas to be accessed, produced and shared.
Efficient to run, and easy to maintain, the cultural centre will be a really useful local landmark, a thing of beauty that is able to respond to changing aspirations, offering the spaces and services that its community needs, now and in the future.
Consultation
The pre planning consultation for the WGCC was launched on Wednesday 15 February. The purpose of the pre planning consultation was to inform the design for the new Cultural Centre as it progressed from the designs proposed during the competitive tender to a full planning application. Full detail of this stage of consultation are set out as part of the planning submission.
If you would like to find out more about the development or have ideas about how to make sure the building meets the needs of all the community then please contact us on willesden.regeneration@brent.gov.uk
During the recent consultations residents said they felt some of the spaces within the existing Willesden Green Library Centre site were under used.
In response to these concerns, a temporary programme of art, culture and enterprise called Greenhouse @ Willesden has been agreed to make full use of the under occupied spaces within the existing centre.
Funding for Willesden High Road in 2012
A successful bid from the Mayor of London Fund for £500,000 is being spent on improving Willesden High Road, through a project called New Windows on Willesden Green.