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Nursery Management: Case Study - Our house

The remodelling of a listed building and its outdoor space has created an exciting new place for learning and creativity, says Aiysha Zahida.

Bright Horizons' Wimbledon House Nursery and Pre-School is now open for business after more than six months of painstaking renovation. It occupies a sizable listed building in the John Innes conservation area of Merton Park in south London. The surrounding estate was designed in the late 19th and early 20th century as one of London's first garden suburbs, with wide tree-lined avenues, holly hedges, and houses in the style of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Bright Horizons took ownership of the building in 2012 as it had recently been purchased by a legacy company which Bright Horizons acquired in May of that year.

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