The Centre occupies the whole of a relatively prominent site on the corner of Streatham High Road and a local residential street (Baldry Gardens), but incorporates a west-facing garden with access from a ground floor group room. The building plays on its simple massing (the conjunction of two wings- one running east/ west, the other north/south), the quality of the brickwork and the size and nature of the windows. The third storey brickwork plant room rises above, and marks, the entrance where the two wings converge.

Spaces are daylit, and where possible naturally ventilated. The scheme employs a biomass boiler.

White brickwork elevations forge a connection between the multifarious brickwork colours used in this eclectic street of period and modern houses, and the white render system recently used to overclad the housing estate immediately south of the Centre. Windows
are thermally broken bronze-anodised aluminium.
Streatham Common PCC has been designed to create a calm and therapeutic healthcare environment, an exemplary working environment for staff, and for ease of adaptability. The Centre has in addition been planned for secure out-of-hours community use.

The £3.01 million building is being procured for the NHS/ Lambeth Southwark and Lewisham LIFT Company by Building Better Health, and will be completed in 2010. Buschow Henley are working in conjunction with structural engineer Price and Myers, environmental engineer Cundall, landscape architect Landscape Projects, cost consultant Davis Langdon and contractor Willmott Dixon.