Reference
CA2/937
Title
Bedford; Hostel for Mentally Handicapped Adults, Brookfield Rd: construction
(P.772; SS/B27/P1)
Date free text
1979-1983
Production date
From: 1979 To: 1983
Scope and Content
The hostel was to provide care and support for mentally handicapped adults not in need of continuous hospital treatment, as per the design brief and memorandum of November 1977. Various sites were considered, including Hill Rise (off Park Road North), 405 Goldington Road, before deciding on a site on Brookfield Road, (land originally part of grounds of Bedford College of Higher Education, Polhill site). The hostel would be a new building. File contains correspondence, architects specifications, location plans for the sites considered, and plans for the Brookfield Road site, accounts, tenders from contractors. Correspondence includes items the County Architect North Bedford Borough Council, building contractors, social services, ultilities, Bedfordshire Fire Service, residents of Brookfield Road and Goldington Middle School.
Later correspondence details the requirement for adaption of facilities for wheelchair accessable rooms.
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Level of description
file