The design team recognised the sensitive nature of the site and its location within the Green Belt and therefore, during the early stages of the design process, dismissed any possibilities of extending out into the car park. However the amount of accommodation required within the unit dictated the need to link the two existing buildings. The scheme required a large reception area into which visitors and patients could be registered and directed to the specialist consulting rooms. The front entrance is the first impression clients receive of the surgery and rather like a general hospital it should be calming and recognise that its visitors are generally anxious. Orientation around the site and the building should be simple and easy to understand and so the main entrance forms the focal point of the facade. An industrial building which is used for storage and small scale industrial processes has limited use for natural daylight. A specialist surgery is the opposite; as much natural daylight as possible is required to enhance the working and healing environments and therefore the strategy has been developed accordingly. The first proposals included a fully glazed facade but our initial consultation on the site with the local authority indicated this would not be supported and therefore we approached it through the use of roof lights to light the spaces below. The introduction of roof lights required the replacement of the existing roof covering but the new panels are to modern standards of insulation creating savings for the heating bills in winter. The internal layout sets the public face with the reception and consulting rooms to the front of the building and the clinical spaces and kennels behind. These in turn are linked to the main administration area within the existing office unit. The space requirement for the surgery dictated the requirement to include a mezzanine area in the centre of the portal frame of the industrial unit. It provides further support for the clinical areas including office space for consultants to complete their daily reports on patients. The front elevation is clad in timber with powder coated aluminium windows which will be openable where ever possible to allow natural ventilation to spaces. The timber provides a `barn` feel to the front elevation to get away from the industrial look of the original cladding and provides a more contemporary entrance into the reception which is clean and modern with overhead roof lights. The link building is a simple structure using as much glass as possible whilst bringing together the different treatments of the existing office building and that of the new surgery. The office building has been adapted and new windows used to match those of the main surgery.