Wellington City Council

Aro Valley Community Centre Upgrade

The Wellington City Council (WCC) is seeking a tender from interested parties to re-develop and upgrade the Aro Valley Community Centre (AVCC) at 48 Aro Street, Aro, Wellington. This site is owned by the WCC and is operated by the Aro Valley Community Trust (AVCT).

The Centre is an active community facility, incorporating hall, office, toilet and kitchen facilities. It is a multi-functional building and hosts a diverse range of activities and programmes, reflective of the Aro valley Community. These include regular school holiday programmes and activities for youth, exercise and language classes and many other cultural activities. The building needs to be upgraded to improve accessibility and functionality to allow these same activities to continue and be expanded.

The key objective is to have a building that is better located for the Aro Community, a safer traffic thoroughfare, and allow for future opportunities with the adjacent pavilion building. The expansion and improvements will allow the Centre to better cater for the range of services able to be offered to the community. The addition of an internal hallway will allow greater flexibility and access of concurrent users to an improved kitchen and additional office space.

The Centre will have ramp accessways at both front and rear of the building, additional decking, wider entrances, kitchen servery with accessible level counter, improved exterior lighting and signage.

Works will require close co-ordination and communication with the community and key stakeholders, management of through traffic and consideration to the adjacent pre-school and residential neighbours.

The project scope is limited to the Community Centre but allows for future development and connectivity with the derelict Tennis Pavilion to the rear of the Centre.