The scheme will provide the borough with a new leisure centre, a new library, a GP surgery and high quality residential accommodation including 40% affordable housing in partnership with housing association London and Quadrant.

It will involve:

· Mary Seacole House to be demolished with new facilities including a new library, GP surgery and joint service centre to be constructed on the site. Designed by Studio Egret West, the new library will be based around a spiral theme, connected to a new GP surgery, a café, performance space and community rooms.
· The new leisure centre, designed by specialists LA Architects, will be on the site of the existing centre on Clapham Manor Street and will feature a 6-lane, 25m swimming pool with movable floor, larger fitness suite, 4-court sports hall, climbing wall and community rooms.
· The final section of the development will be to develop a community-run centre within the Clapham Old Library building. A budget has been set aside to renovate the building, and the council is working with a local community group to develop plans.

The entire development will be built according to the most stringent environmental criteria. Cathedral will work with some of the most experienced sustainability consultants to reduce carbon emissions to 30% below normal standards, reduce normal water usage by 30% and enable the development to generate 15% of its own power needs from renewable resources.

Cathedral's project director Martin Wood said: "We are incredibly proud to have been selected by Lambeth to build these fantastic new community facilities. Libraries and leisure centres are right at the heart of community services and our ambition in Lambeth is to build the best examples in the UK."

Cathedral hopes to submit a planning application for the first part of the development in April.

It is thought the first stage of the development, the brand new leisure centre, will be delivered in early 2010.
A public launch of the new scheme will take place in Mary Seacole House in early March.