Work begins on multi-million Staffordshire remembrance centre
Construction work on a new £15.7 million remembrance centre at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas in Staffordshire is underway.
The centre, designed by Glenn Howells Architects, will provide expanded visitor facilities at the Royal British Legion site, which has more than 300 memorials and around 30,000 maturing trees in 150 acres of grounds.
Building company Stepnell is working on the project, which will take a year to deliver. As well as the new remembrance and learning centre there will be an new outdoor area called Heroes' Square.
The project is expected to see annual visitor numbers rise from 300,000 a year to around 500,000. The new building will have a limestone facade, echoing the Portland Stone of the nearby Armed Forces Memorial
Joint managing director of Rugby-based Stepnell, Mark Wakeford, said: "We feel honoured to be helping deliver the new remembrance centre at the National Memorial Arboretum.
"This is a very exciting and poignant project for Stepnell, which has a long history of supporting our service men and women that dates back to the company's founding in 1867."
