Strategy, delivery, management
Working in collaboration with local stakeholders, businesses, communities, councils and strategic partners, we provide practical support and guidance across three core areas.
Our work helps places to develop:
- Achievable place strategies
- Impactful place delivery plans
- Robust place management and governance arrangements.
Place strategy support
We offer place audits to assess the health of a town or high street and to reveal the issues and opportunities that will inform the development of the necessary bespoke policies and strategies to effect real change.
These include:
- Place diagnostics and audits
- Economic and social research
- Stakeholder engagement
- Visioning
- Culture strategy
- Market strategy
- Town markets strategy
- Heritage strategy
- High Street Rental Auction (HSRA) support
- Neighbourhood planning.
Place delivery support
Place changing is about action. We offer a range of key services and tools that helps to make change happen. These include:
- Place activation and animation
- Events and new uses
- Marketing, branding and communication
- Business, retail and landlord forums
- Connecting with young people
- Indoor and outdoor market support
- High Street Rental Auction (HSRA) support.
Place management and governance support
Sustainable change occurs where good place management and governance arrangements exist.
We work with all the stakeholders and partner in a place to provide:
- Town partnership and governance development support
- Business improvement district (BID) development support
- Place leadership and management advice and guidance
- Place management training and workshops
- Case studies and best practice.