The main building was originally commissioned on a speculative basis by a developer, Bernard Sunley & Sons, for use as commercial offices and for postal sorting.

[5] Many of the council officers of the London Borough of Merton and their departments, which had previously been located at Wimbledon Town Hall, moved into the building in 1985.

[6] After civic leaders decided to co-locate all their operations at Morden, and to use it as their meeting place as well, the adjacent site to the east which had previously been occupied by a supermarket was acquired for expansion.

[8] This extension contained a council chamber and a public library enabling the expanded complex to become the new Civic Centre for Merton in 1990.

[1] A major programme of refurbishment works to replace all the windows in the main structure with aluminium double-glazing was completed in spring 2014.