Developed during the 1990s by property entrepreneur Gerald Hitman, Brockhall Village occupies the site of a former mental hospital and is the home of the training facilities for Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Development was still in its early stages at this time, with the location described in The Guardian as a "forbidding complex of barrack blocks, barriers and brick chimneys which once housed the mentally afflicted".

[4] In February 2021 Blackburn Rovers announced plans to demolish their senior training centre and construct 170 new homes, which they later abandoned after pressure from residents.

[5] In June 2021, ownership of the senior training centre was transferred to Venkateshwara London Limited, a new company set up by club owners Venky's.

So-called because the site was once a petting zoo for the psychiatric patients at the hospital, the final design was chosen after a competition organised by RIBA.