Our masterplanning service helps clients plan for change. Clients come to us with a multitude of problems, from a single building struggling to withstand the pressures of everyday use to a sprawling site that has fallen into redundancy. We work with owners, custodians and developers to find solutions to meet these challenges.
Masterplanning is often associated with large urban developments, but we work at sites of many types and scales, often in the most complex and fragile contexts. What these places have in common, whether an academic campus, a cathedral precinct, historic city centre or industrial brownfield site, is the richness of their identity.
We don’t impose solutions onto places, beginning every masterplan by listening to the client and taking time to understand their site or building as more than a conjunction of landscape and architecture. It’s the intangible things – light, texture, memory – that give a place its essential character. We have the expertise to explore, to interpret and to enhance that character.
The key skill of our masterplanning team is to take a strategic overview of a whole site in its cultural, economic and legislative context and to optimize its potential. We have a proven track record of working with stakeholders, statutory consultees and communities to achieve a strong consensus. Our sector expertise ensures that clients benefit from tailored advice and thoughtful contemporary design at every level.
Masterplanning is about balancing creativity and pragmatism. We are acutely aware of the commercial realities our clients face, and our masterplanning service is focused on identifying potential for development, unlocking value and delivering truly sustainable solutions – both in economic and environmental terms.