Our founder, Diane Cunningham, discusses issues affecting high streets, markets, town centres and small businesses. We love exploring new places and revisiting old ones with a new angle.
Here you can find interviews with clients and colleagues, events and research. There may also be observations from what we learn on projects and when out and about.
Back in January 2019, our director, Diane embarked on an MSc in Place Management and Leadership with the Institute of Place Management based at Manchester Metropolitan University.Diane has now reached the...
PLACE is the new placemaking Virtual Property event for property leaders. We tuned in for the launch event and you can read a summary of the keynote below. This thought-provoking session...
England’s first lockdown saw most high streets and town centre’s physical stores close, which resulted in a huge increase in online shopping. Whilst lockdown 2 is lighter, there are still...
As a trustee at The London Society, we hosted a panel discussion last week on London’s high streets. We know that the lockdown has affected current patterns of working, shopping and eating...
As reopening continues at pace across high streets and town centres, we adapt to new ways of moving around and accessing shops and services, it’s easy to lose track of...
Along with most people, (especially after last weeks’ press on getting back to work) I’m finding the government’s messaging on encouraging people to return to the office very confusing. At...