Scheme set to safeguard 90-year-old building and enhance visitor experience
Rother District Council has unanimously given planning permission and listed building consent for Haworth Tompkins’ masterplan to refurbish and adapt the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex.
The grade I listed pavilion, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff and completed in 1935, will undergo phased conservation and upgrade works intended to safeguard its fabric, improve accessibility and energy performance, and enhance the visitor experience.
The project team includes Buro Happold as MEP engineer, Price & Myers as civil and structural engineer, Eckersley O’Callaghan as facade engineer, Caneparo as transport consultant, Lichfields as planning consultant and JCLA as landscape architect.
The work is being developed in partnership with Rother district council. The phased approach is intended to allow parts of the building to remain open during construction.
The £17m scheme has received funding from Arts Council England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, East Sussex county council along with private donors, although additional funding will be required to complete all phases of the project.
The pavilion marks its 90th birthday in December.
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