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    Morgan Sindall’s £69m Hackney baths upgrade: design and heritage notes for engineers

    January 20, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    Morgan Sindall’s £69m Hackney baths upgrade: design and heritage notes for engineers

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    Morgan Sindall Construction has started a £68.7m refurbishment of Hackney’s Grade II-listed Kings Hall Leisure Centre, originally opened in 1897, under the Southern Construction Framework. Works include retaining the existing large pool while adding a second full-size pool and a smaller teaching pool, plus a double-height sports hall, extended gym and studio spaces, and a fully accessible new entrance from Clapton Square. FaulknerBrowns Architects and Alan Baxter Civil & Structural Engineering are leading design, with completion targeted for autumn 2028 and careful retention of the historic façade, glazed brickwork and balustrades.

    Technical Brief

    • £68.7m capex delivered under the Southern Construction Framework procurement route for Hackney Council.
    • Morgan Sindall’s London team is main contractor, coordinating multiple heritage refurbishment and new-build workstreams.
    • Design and engineering led by FaulknerBrowns Architects with Alan Baxter as civil and structural consultant.
    • AtkinsRéalis acting as cost consultant, providing cost control on phased refurbishment and extension works.
    • Hadron Consulting engaged as project consultant, supporting programme, risk and stakeholder management.
    • Ares Landscape Architects responsible for external realm and interface with Clapton Square public space.
    • Handover is programmed for autumn 2028, implying a multi-year, live-urban construction sequence.
    • Lessons from Morgan Sindall’s 2021 four-storey Britannia Leisure Centre build are being transferred to methodology here.

    Our Take

    Within our 489 Infrastructure stories, London borough leisure and civic refurbishments like Kings Hall Leisure Centre tend to face longer programme risk from heritage constraints than new-build assets such as the nearby Britannia Leisure Centre, which contractors need to price into prelims and contingency.

    Use of the Southern Construction Framework (SCF) on this Hackney scheme aligns with a cluster of other London public-sector projects in our database where councils have leaned on SCF to lock in Tier 1 delivery capacity amid inflation, signalling that direct OJEU competitions are becoming less common for complex refurbishments.

    The 1897 opening date for Kings Hall means structural and services integration will likely resemble hospital and school retrofit work seen elsewhere in our coverage, where intrusive surveys and phased decanting have been critical to managing unknowns in Victorian fabric while keeping parts of the estate operational.

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