Client:

Bethnal Green Meeting House & URC Thames North Synod

Assignment:

To prepare a feasibility study on the redevelopment of the site

Timescale:

One year from spring of 2007

Project Description:

The Bethnal Green Meeting House was built in 1853 and has been substantially adapted since. It is home to a URC church, Praxis - an NGO working with refugees & asylum seekers, a Medecins du Monde project, and the local Bangla School. The Means was employed to write a feasibility study on the possible redevelopment of the site to provide new accommodation for all tenants on the site, plus a possible revenue-generating residential element.  The Means sourced pro bono  assistance from surveyors GL Hearn and solicitors Allen & Overy, as well as recruiting architects Witherford Watson Mann to undertake the site capacity study.