Places
We manage projects that bring people and businesses together at markets and on their high streets
We connect the dots bringing together a strong network and experience from local authorities, community groups and the private sector to develop and deliver projects that impact high streets and neighbourhoods.
We launch and improve street markets, create opportunities for businesses enterprise and build communication programmes to reach a wide range of stakeholders. Using a marketing-based approach we develop and manage projects in a no-nonsense, practical way making sense of disparate strands and bringing order to chaos. We think of ourselves as place facilitators. We bring people together to change or improve their place ensuring the approach and outcome is tailored to it; it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach.We help high streets be more resilient and create opportunities for businesses to thrive
Stakeholder engagement
We identify stakeholders, develop an engagement plan (including comms) and the questionnaires and other tools that run alongside it. We work primarily with businesses from small to global multiples often via BIDs.
Markets and events
We have worked on markets extensively from setting them up from scratch to managing flourishing concerns. We run consultations, create strategies, deliver training and review operations and policy.
Marketing and comms
We develop marketing plans, sharpen messaging and produce engaging content, to ensure your place campaigns are maximised to their full potential and to promote consultations, engaging the right audiences along the way.
Covid-19 recovery
We work on projects that support business recovery and reopening post Covid-19. From engaging with businesses to reviewing existing strategies and plans we reflect on changes that may be needed to help high streets thrive.
BUSINESSES ENGAGED
MARKETS REVIEWED
SURVEY RESPONSES
LOCAL AUTHORITY PROJECTS
We work on neighbourhood high streets, in market towns and city centres across the UK.
We help high streets be more resilient and create opportunities for businesses to thrive, often in places undergoing large scale change.
We build place brands and marketing campaigns and engage people with their place across a wide range of stakeholders working with local authorities, BIDs, developers. architects, urban designers and others who want to make the most of their place.
Challenges of the night time economy.
How might you better understand your night time economy and ensure it serves both users, workers and businesses alike? We’ve pulled together tips to get you thinking from our experience in London’s first night time enterprise zone in Walthamstow.
In the context of the redevelopment of Elephant and Castle Town Centre, the council commissioned a project to examine the health of businesses on nearby Walworth Road.
Walthamstow High Street was London’s first-ever Night Time Enterprise Zone. We carried out extensive engagement with businesses to understand the current and future night time economy.
A public consultation, working with the council’s Insight Team to devise a trader and customer survey, run drop-in sessions and use the response data to produce a three year strategy for five street markets.
Arup were commissioned to convene The Future of Barking Town Centre Panel, created to develop a vision for the future of the town centre to 2030.