Bournville is a historic model village on the southwest side of Birmingham.
The village was founded by the Quaker Cadbury family in 1879, moving the chocolate factory from the city centre to the countryside and expanding their business. Fast forward over a century, and the village is now a major tourist attraction in the West Midlands.
Famous for Cadbury’s Bournville dark chocolate named after the village, one of the main ingredients this village was missing was a state-of-the-art medical centre.
That's where we came in to help at the former Bournville College site.
Working as part of a newly-formed Primary Care Network, the building gives the new practice space to accommodate other healthcare professionals such as clinical pharmacists, social prescribers, physiotherapists, physician's associates and community paramedics and demonstrates the role that the right space can play in helping primary care networks to collaborate for the benefit of staff and patients.
We are delighted to finally move into our new building. The move means a better working environment for our staff and most importantly a better experience for our patients. The importance of primary care has never been greater and we will now be able to provide more services to the people in the community."
Daniel Hill, Managing Partner, College Green Medical Practice.
The health and wellbeing centre, and the village as a whole, will ensure the people of south Birmingham have the services and facilities they need to keep healthy, well and really thrive.“
Pete Richmond, Chief Executive of Bournville Village Trust
We are delighted to have helped bring this project to completion during a very testing time and the end result is a testament to the teamwork of everyone involved. Covid-19 hit early in the programme but this enabled us to make some changes to the building that will improve pandemic resilience in the future."
Ashley Seymour, our Senior Development Manager.
