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    Weybridge health centre: design, phasing and flexibility insights for project teams

    February 20, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    Weybridge health centre: design, phasing and flexibility insights for project teams

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    Willmott Dixon has started main construction on a £20m, two-storey health centre on the former Weybridge hospital site in Surrey, following two months of enabling works. Funded by the Department of Health & Social Care, NHS Property Services and NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB, the Murphy Philipps–designed facility is scheduled to open in spring 2027. The building will accommodate the Phoenix Family Practice plus maternity, same-day urgent care, diagnostics and wider wellbeing services, with layouts planned for long-term flexibility and future reconfiguration.

    Technical Brief

    • Funding structure combines DHSC, NHS Property Services and NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB capital allocations.
    • Phoenix Family Practice co-location drives shared access, circulation and back-of-house servicing requirements.
    • Same-day urgent care and diagnostics functions imply higher MEP resilience, medical gases and imaging load allowances.
    • Long-term adaptability brief requires demountable partitions, generic floorplates and future-proofed MEP distribution zones.

    Our Take

    Within our 750 Infrastructure stories, Willmott Dixon appears frequently on NHS and local authority schemes, signalling that its track record on more than 100 healthcare projects is now a key differentiator in winning mid-sized (£10–50m) health estate work in England and Wales.

    A £20m, two-storey facility on the former Weybridge hospital site fits the pattern in our database of NHS Property Services prioritising replacement of legacy community assets over entirely new greenfield builds, which can shorten planning risk but complicate groundworks and phasing around existing utilities.

    The spring 2027 horizon aligns with typical 24–30 month build programmes seen in other NHS Surrey Heartlands and wider DHSC-backed schemes in our coverage, suggesting that any slippage in early civils or enabling works could quickly compress commissioning and fit-out windows for Phoenix Family Practice and co-located services.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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