Community Strategies & Engagement

Working directly with communities to shape projects through meaningful participation, supporting individual, social and civic connection to the built environment

Meet Our Waterfront

Meet Our Waterfront explored the future of Glasgow’s riverfront through a programme of public engagement and creative activity. The project invited communities to reflect on how the Clyde is used today and how it could evolve in the future. Through workshops, events and accessible engagement tools, it gathered a wide range of perspectives on movement, access, ecology and public life. The findings informed strategic thinking around the waterfront, highlighting opportunities to create a more connected, inclusive and active civic space

Place Plans

Place Plans capture what people want from their place, turning ideas, stories and priorities into a shared, actionable vision for long‑term change. We have completed Place Plans for communities across Scotland including communities which have to align National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) requirements with the Borderlands Place Programme and other programmes for transformational change.

Broomhill Place Plan

Houston Place Plan

Whithorn Place Plan

Eyemouth Place Plan

Peebles Place Plan

Paisley East & Whitehaugh
Place Plan

Future Angus

A regional vision shaped through wide‑ranging engagement to support long‑term growth, resilience and identity

Blackpool Design Code

Translating community priorities into a practical, deliverable design code guiding future development

Bromley-By-Bow Connections

Engagement‑led approach to improving connections, movement and access in a rapidly changing urban area

Buchanan Galleries

Community engagement for the redevelopment of Buchanan Galleries, helping ensure local voices informed a major city centre transformation. Working alongside design teams and stakeholders, the project delivered inclusive consultation activities that reached a broad and diverse audience. The approach balanced statutory consultation requirements with meaningful participation, ensuring engagement was not tokenistic but genuinely influential in shaping a prominent and complex urban development

Upstart, Langholm

Youth-driven engagement for a community driven regeneration supporting local ambition, enterprise and place stewardship

Colville Estate Masterplan

Resident‑led engagement shaping the future of a major London estate through close collaboration with a steering group and local community.

Newham Characterisation Study

Research-led study exploring the 15-minute neighbourhood model across Newham, combining community engagement, data analysis and spatial mapping to inform planning policy and future development

Glasgow Liveable Neighbourhoods

community engagement to support the redesign of local streets and public spaces. Through inclusive consultation methods, it ensured a wide range of voices contributed to shaping proposals. The work supported the development of place-based solutions that promote healthier, more sustainable neighbourhoods and strengthen local identity

Statutory Planning Engagement

Delivering statutory consultation which goes beyond the basic requirements for developers, architects and planning consultants to build public confidence in high quality developments

Garristown Smart Village Plan

A future‑focused rural plan combining community insight with innovative thinking on living, working and sustainability

George Square Redevelopment: Our Place, Glasgow

Our Place Glasgow is a city-wide engagement programme supporting communities to shape the future of their neighbourhoods. Working with local groups, stakeholders and the local authority, the project developed accessible tools and methods to gather insight, build confidence and enable meaningful participation in planning and design processes. Through workshops, conversations and collaborative activities, it created a platform for residents to share lived experience and influence decision-making. The project strengthened local networks and demonstrated how inclusive engagement can inform policy, strategy and long-term change across the city

Falkirk Wheel and Lock 16

Public engagement programme informing the future of the Falkirk Wheel and Lock 16, exploring connections between communities, tourism and landscape through creative consultation to support a wider net-zero masterplan

Glasgow Culture Plan

City‑wide engagement capturing diverse voices to inform Glasgow’s cultural strategy and future identity

Active Streets

Remote engagement programme supporting active travel and public realm improvements, working with schools and communities to explore safer, more accessible everyday journeys and co-design future interventions through creative digital and physical tools

Shaping Shrublands

Creative engagement programme supporting community-led housing in Croydon, working with residents to shape the brief for future development while building local capacity and understanding of long-term change

Dean Gardens

Creative engagement programme shaping the redesign of a West London park while building local skills and capacity.

Northolt Public Art Strategy

Community-led strategy embedding creativity within a changing town centre, celebrating heritage, identity and green space while supporting local artists to shape future public realm interventions

Making Places

A creative engagement programme building local capacity and empowering communities to shape their own places

The Arc, Victoria

Strategic engagement shaping a central London masterplan focused on walking, wheeling and public life

Designing Watford Town Centre

Collaborative engagement shaping a town centre vision grounded in everyday use and local experience

Visions for Northolt

Extensive engagement programme developing a community-led vision for a west London neighbourhood, supporting local people to shape future investment through inclusive dialogue and co-created proposals

On Your Marks

Stakeholder engagement and creative communications shaping a future plan for Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, working with users and local communities to inform a shared brief and build trust in a renewed vision

Social Impact of Offshore Renewables

Public dialogue programme exploring the social impacts of offshore renewable energy, using accessible, scenario-based engagement to connect communities with technical research and inform future policy decisions

Sighthill

Creative engagement programme supporting an outdoor community space within a major regeneration area, focusing on building local capacity, confidence and tools for community use over time

Stewarts Road

Working with urban designers, landscape architects and architects to propose plans for the redevelopment of a road in South London

Moor Lane

Engagement to support an upgrade to a City of London street beside the Barbican from an under-loved back route to a thriving neighbourhood street

Reimagining Amhurst Road

Transforming a car‑dominated street into a people‑first green corridor through engagement‑led design.

Guidance Documents

Extensive community engagement programme informing a shared vision for the future of a west London neighbourhood. Working with local people, stakeholders and organisations, the project developed a community-led framework to guide future investment and long-term participation

Buchanan Bus Station

Engagement and stakeholder communications for Buchanan Bus Station masterplan proposed by an AtkinsRealis led team, exploring transport related infrastructure and identifying development plots

Find out more about our other workstreams:

Place Activation
& Meanwhile-Use

Introducing new and unexpected activity into places, testing ideas, building momentum and creating a platform for long-term change

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Community-led
Architecture

Transforming existing buildings into functional, flexible and accessible spaces, making the most of rich histories to support new uses and futures

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