Building has started on Warfield Community Hub at Priory Field, with a café, sports hall and 119 parking spaces. It is due to open by the end of 2027.

Building work on Warfield’s new community hub has started on Priory Field. Bracknell Forest Council and Warfield Parish Council marked it with a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday 9 November. The hub is due to be open by the end of 2027, the borough council said.

Neilcott Construction is the main contractor. Once the building is finished, Warfield Parish Council will own and run it, according to the hub’s own questions page.

What the hub will have

The two councils list:

  • a café
  • a four-court sports hall
  • a dance and fitness studio
  • meeting rooms and multi-use spaces for hire, including a function hall
  • a new home for Warfield Parish Council
  • a new children’s play area
  • improved sports pitches on Priory Field
  • a link to the East/West Greenway for walking, cycling and horse riding

The car park will have 119 spaces, including covered accessible bays, plus electric car chargers and cycle parking. It will be locked when the hub is shut, and the site will have CCTV.

Who is paying, and why it looks the way it does

The build is paid for from developer contributions from new homes across Warfield, the build questions page says. Neither council has published the contract value.

Planning permission was granted by Bracknell Forest Council in March 2026. The building is meant to be net zero carbon in day-to-day use. It will have no gas boilers and about 650 solar panels, with a screen inside showing what they generate. The design page says the brick was picked to reflect Warfield’s brickmaking history, and that planning rules required a “landmark building”. The parish council’s announcement says it is also aiming for a BREEAM Excellent sustainability rating.

The same page answers some of the questions residents have asked:

  • Why not Brownlow Hall? It belongs to a charitable trust, not either council, and there is little room to expand it.
  • Why no GP surgery? Surgeries are funded and placed by the NHS, which the councils do not control.
  • Why no shops? Shops are planned in the new neighbourhood centre being built just north of the hub.

What it means for you

Priory Field stays partly open during the build, with entrances from Harvest Ride and Old Priory Lane. There is no parking on site until the new car park opens. Two football pitches stay in use, and one has moved to Westmorland Park. The councils say Whitegrove Football Club is asking players to walk or cycle, and parking is reviewed with the club every month.

Opening hours are not final. The councils expect the hub to be open 8am to 10pm Monday to Saturday and 8am to 6pm on Sundays. Hire prices have not been set. Groups that want to book a room can register their interest now.

Cllr Iskandar Jefferies, Bracknell Forest’s cabinet member for leisure, said the hub would be “a welcoming place where residents can meet, take part in activities, relax and spend time together”. Cllr Gareth Barnard, chairman of Warfield Parish Council, called it “a proud and exciting moment for our parish”.