In January 2002, Kennedy FitzGerald and Associates were commissioned by Belfast City Council to design a new leisure centre to replace the existing Grove Baths in Belfast. Having identified the need for a new Community Treatment and Care Centre in the area, the Trust’s Primary Care services and a number of GP practices would combine these two new facilities to create an integrated Health and Well Being Centre.

An agreement to proceed with the development of a design for a building containing all of the proposed services was reached in early 2003 and Kennedy FitzGerald formed an association with Avanti Architects, a London based practice with extensive experience in primary healthcare architecture, to assist them with the development of the project. Kennedy FitzGerald assumed overall responsibility for the coordination and design of the project with Avanti Architects leading on the planning of the Health Centre.

The Grove is the first centre in Northern Ireland to combine health, leisure and information services and benefited from consultation with the Carbon Trust in accordance with the low Carbon Design initiative.

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