Ebbsfleet Garden City Trust expects to take over the management and maintenance of several community buildings over the coming years, with three completed within the next three years.
Community Facilities
Along with the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, we are working very hard to ensure these community facilities complement each other, as well as those in the wider surroundings of Gravesend and Dartford . At all stages, our aim is to include residents in the development of the facilities at key points, ensure we partner with community groups to develop inclusive, diverse, and accessible programmes to support social, leisure, health, and economic well-being, and build flexible buildings and spaces that can be adapted to the changing needs of the community.
Springhead Park Community Garden and Allotments
The Springhead Park Community Garden and Allotments are on Springhead Parkway. Located alongside the linear park, between Springhead Bridge and Springhead Park Primary School, it is easy to find, and provides a wonderful view over the local area.
The Community Garden consists of 16 raised planter beds, a wildflower orchard and 30 fruit trees. The seating areas ensure this is a relaxing, peaceful space that can be enjoyed by everyone in the community.
Springhead Park also provides 52 allotment plots of various sizes ranging from 30m to 60m. The allotments are surrounded by fencing, green hedges and locked gates. The plots have access to water taps, community compost bins, potting benches, cycle racks and some parking.
If you would like to find out more, or apply for an allotment go to www.egctrust.org.uk/allotments
Ebbsfleet Green Community Garden and Allotments
The Ebbsfleet Green Community Garden and Allotments are tucked away on the Ebbsfleet Green development, at the end of Tickner Drive.
The Community Garden consists of 11 raised planter beds, a wildflower orchard and 25 fruit trees. The seating areas ensure this is a relaxing, peaceful space that can be enjoyed by everyone in the community.
Ebbsfleet Green also provides 30 allotment plots of various sizes ranging from 30m2 to 125m2. The allotments are surrounded by fencing, green hedges and locked gates. The plots have access to water taps, community compost bins, potting benches, and some parking.
If you would like to find out more, or apply for an allotment go to www.egctrust.org.uk/allotments.
Weldon Heart
Weldon Heart (formerly referred to as Neighbourhood House) will be a single-storey facility adjacent to the play park and Ebbsfleet Green Primary School. It will provide a hall – with a capacity for about 100 people – commercial kitchen, parcel delivery/return lockers, a community tool shed (imagine a library for borrowing tools instead of books!), and rooms for hire. It is designed for a wide range of community-based activities led by residents and local community groups.
Local residents are already talking with us about the types activities that could be run from Weldon Heart. If you are interested in discussing your ideas, please contact us via email on Buildings@egctrust.org.uk. Weldon Heart is expected to be completed in Autumn 2025
Alkerden Community Hub
Alkerden Hub will be a landmark community building in Ebbsfleet Garden City. The new Hub will be at the centre of Whitecliffe near the Major Urban Park, an essential part of Alkerden’s Market Centre, all of which will become Alkerden Village. Designed to be a state-of-the-art multi-purpose facility to meet family and community needs, it will include health services and a Lifelong Learning Center. The provision of a café, 200-person capacity hall – which will also serve as a multi-faith space – multipurpose studio, co-working space, rooftop terrace, meeting rooms and rooms for hire means the Hub really will be a hub for all the community.
It will lie along Fastrack, the bus-only road running through Whitecliffe, providing good connections with Ebbsfleet International in the East and Bluewater to the West. It will also benefit from new bike and pedestrian routes, ensuring excellent connections to neighbouring areas. Alkerden Hub is expected to be opened in 2027.
Weldon Wellbeing Pavilion
Formerly referred to as the Community Hub, Weldon Wellbeing Pavilion is located at the Southern end of Ebbsfleet Green / Weldon. It will be 1013sqm spanning over two storeys. With a sports focus, it will be run by a specialist leisure operator – Freedom Leisure – and will have a gym, exercise studio, changing facilities, community hall (with a capacity of about 200 people), kitchen, café, play space and parking, as well as a pavilion to serve the FA football standard 3G sports pitch and tennis courts. This building will be a hub for community activities, providing spaces that can be hired out by local residents and community groups.
It will be available for every member of the community to access. Not just a sports building, but a community venue that the most and the least active can access. It is expected to be ready for use by January 2026.
Castle Hill Arts and Cultural Hub
Castle Hill Site D is set to become the Castle Hill Arts and Cultural Hub. Within the village of Castle Hill, this hub will differ from other community spaces in Ebbsfleet. Both the Alkerden Hub and Castle Hill Hub will offer spaces that professionals and community patrons alike can share; however, the Castle Hill Hub will be distinct in its focus on the Arts and Culture sector.
Visitors will be able to access a range of activities and opportunities for music recording and production, workshops, studios, rehearsal and performance space, co-working clusters, and meeting spaces, together with a café / exhibition space, all of which is intended to deliver a vibrant community and arts building. It will be close to a car park and a fast-track stop, opposite a park with local shops and other community spaces nearby.