Plans for a multi-functional community hub in Warfield are starting to take shape.

Bracknell Forest Council and Warfield Parish Council will fund the new hub to provide essential services alongside mass housebuilding in the village.

More than 2,000 houses are planned to be built in the area, which has lacked in facilities ‘compared to other parts of the borough’, according to a leading Bracknell Forst Councillor.

Executive member for leisure, culture, public protection and democracy Councillor Iskandar Jefferies gave other members an update on progress at an Overview and Scrutiny commission on September 19.

Councillor Jefferies said that the hub had ‘been in the making for quite some time’, and that Warfield ‘has been undeserved in terms of community centre facilities compared to other parts of the borough’.

There will be new offices for Warfield Parish Council as part of the building, and the lower authority will run the facilities. Plans for the hub said it would ‘enable community engagement, cohesion and wellbeing’.

Councillor Adrian Haffegee, ward member for Binfield North and Warfield West, welcomed the plans.

Bracknell Forest and Warfield Parish are splitting the cost, which is projected to be £13.7 million.

The ‘feasibility and concept design’ phase is now complete, and plans will next go to council leaders in the executive to approve and commit funding on October 15.

Construction is expected to start in September 2025, aiming to reach full completion in February 2027.

The executive member said he hoped the centre would open by May 2027 and would ‘serve the community for years to come’.