We are a delivery-focused consultancy, committed to creating lasting social, economic, and environmental value for places and communities.
By supporting impactful investments, considered development, and more empowered communities, we help deliver successful places, fairer and more resilient economies, and greater social equity.
We work at different scales, from individual assets and neighbourhoods to cities and regions, always grounded in collaboration and long-term impact.
Our analysis and advice covers everything from the evidence gathering phase to strategy development to getting projects delivered.
Evidence + Strategy → Delivery
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Evidence to inform action
In an increasingly complex world, decision-makers need clarity. We combine quantitative and qualitative social and economic evidence to help our clients make better-informed decisions.
Our outputs illuminate lived experiences, economic challenges and opportunities, community strengths, and paths towards more inclusive, resilient economies.
Our evidence offer includes:
- Socioeconomic baselines
- Commercial & residential property market assessments
- Town centre uses and usage audits
- Cultural & community infrastructure reviews
- Evening and night-time studies
- Sector analysis
- Stakeholder interviews, workshops, and focus groups
- Feasibility and options testing
- Casemaking for investment
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Progressive strategy design
We work with clients who are shaping the future economy. We design visions, strategies, and plans to grow economies which are greener, fairer and more prosperous.
Our advice is evidence-led, purpose-driven, and helps our clients to achieve better outcomes for their places and communities.
Our strategy offer includes:
- Inclusive economy strategies
- Mission-based strategy development
- Inward investment planning
- Workspace and meanwhile use strategies
- Asset strategies
- Circular economy and decarbonisation strategies
- Theory of Change
- Monitoring plans
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Pathways to delivery
Our work prepares the way for transformation.
We support clients in making informed
investment and development decisions that
drive growth and create better places.
Our delivery offer includes:
- Viability review
- Partnership and joint venture design and co-ordination
- Development management
- Asset-led business planning
- Commercial ventures
- Funding and financing options
- Procurement support
- Service redesign
Our specialisms
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Property development & delivery structures
We design and shape innovative delivery routes to bring bold, transformative development schemes into reality—from individual assets to entire masterplans. We translate property market evidence and performance data and into insights and project viability, which we use to structure approaches to investment and financing, targeted intervention and project realisation.
We work in the space between the public and private sectors, with a deep understanding of their motivations and how to harmonise their needs to drive better outcomes and more effective delivery.
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Partnership approaches & structures
Given the complexity of many regeneration and asset strategies, pooling expertise and resources through partnership working is often a necessity—and a route to more effective processes and outcomes. We help clients identify potential delivery partners, map respective strengths and capacity, and establish partnership structures that bring together the best of all partners with a view to forging long-term, effective relationships.
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Data & evidence
There is an ever-increasing amount of data on places, people, planet, and the economy, but it can be difficult to know where to start. We empower clients to engage with and use good evidence confidently, leading to stronger strategies and better-informed decisions.
Our approach to data filters the signals from the noise. We seek the most relevant sources to answer clients’ questions. Our outputs offer robust, bespoke insight centred around compelling maps and graphs to illustrate lived experiences of local communities and illuminate pathways towards more inclusive, resilient economies.
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Political & public sector response
We are living in an era of crises and complexity. Whilst many of the most pressing policy challenges have national (and increasingly global) roots, they are visible in our neighbourhoods, town centres, and high streets. In times of crises, communities turn to the public sector to lead the response.
Our work provides clarity to these defining policy challenges, empowering local leaders with the evidence to act. We use our understanding of what works, and experience of working in the public sector, to support clients to diagnose the challenges, develop locally relevant solutions, and deliver the response.
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Circular economy & net zero
We are working to transition the economy to deliver for people and the planet. We strive to respond to the climate emergency and achieve fairer places by positively disrupting existing models and ways of thinking, and providing systems-change advice.
We embrace circular economy principles, working closely with our clients to drive impactful change and develop new ventures while supporting bottom-up approaches.
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Social impact strategies
All of our work aims to deliver better social and economic outcomes for individuals and communities. At the heart of our approach is achieving fairness and equality: the ultimate outcome of our work is to drive impactful change and create stronger community and individual wellbeing.
We achieve this by combining robust evidence with lived experience. We work from the bottom up and empower communities by working with them and giving them a voice. We use this insight to challenge our clients to approach investment, strategy, service provision and impact differently.