Gravesham Civic Centre
Gravesham Civic Centre is a municipal building in Gravesend, a town in Kent, in England.
From 1764, the municipal headquarters were at Gravesend Town Hall. By the 1920s, the council had outgrown the hall, and it purchased various buildings around Wrotham Road to provide additional office space. These were cleared in the early 1960s,[1] and from 1961 to 1968 a new civic centre was constructed, to a brutalist design by Brian Richards, from the firm led by Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown. In 2011, the council proposed removing internal walls to create open-plan offices. A proposal to list the building was rejected,[2] and the alterations were carried out at a cost of £6 million. In addition, the customer service area was enlarged, and an anti-carbonation coating was applied to the building.[3]
References
- ^ "Images Through Time: Civic Centre". Discover Gravesham. Gravesham Borough Council. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Concrete proposals: Gravesham Civic Centre". The Guardian. 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Clear Anti-Carbonation Protection for Civic Centre". Flexcrete. Retrieved 11 July 2024.