Overview
We can help you get the most from land you own or are considering for purchase - helping
to maximise financial return, optimise land use or ensure value for money.
Most of all we want to make beautiful, sustainable, places.
We offer personal attention from the directors backed up with a network
of creative and development professionals - teams are custom built for each
individual project.
The directors of place have many years of experience in Landscape Architecture,
Urban and Building Design, Masterplanning and Regeneration gained in the
UK, USA and South America.
We are based in the South West providing design consultancy services regionally
and throughout the
UK and Ireland.
Masterplanning
From initial site analysis & development feasibility
to detailed issues of sustainable project design Place take a comprehensive
and integrated approach to resolving the complexities of masterplanning. Workplace,
education, health, residential and leisure development
- Conceptual building design & site planning for private
and public clients
- Development feasibility studies & developer competitions
- Scheme development, outline planning and design coordination
- Sustainability planning and renewable energy systems
Urban Design & Community Regeneration
Place recognise the increasing importance
of Urban Design for towns and cities where structural change is increasingly
complex. We believe in urban place-making that builds on the physical qualities
of existing places.
We also believe in the importance of creating and sustaining
lively, prosperous places within existing settlements and planning attractive,
mixed-use urban neighbourhoods.
- Urban Placemaking
- Regeneration initiatives including community based participative design
- Public realm design
- Inclusive design and access planning for public spaces
- Architecture and building design
Landscape Design & Planning
From hydrogeology to habitation Place are concerned with
creating socially, culturally and commercially successful landscapes.
We are committed to the responsible reconciliation of client development requirements
into the wider landscape context
- Environmental Analysis
- Visual Impact analysis and mitigation
- Hydrogeological impact
- Flood risk impact analysis and drainage requirements
- Ecological impact assessment
- Reuse of post-industrial landscapes - mining and quarrying industries
- Planting plans and vegetation management
- Leisure, amenity and play planning & design
- Community, health and learning landscape design
Research
Place deliver field based research and desk top studies for specific development related
briefs. We can also provide community based stakeholder consultation &
development process facilitation
- Site based hydrological, ecological site condition testing
- Green space amenity management & provision analysis
- Urban framework studies
- CABE ‘Spaceshaper’ site evaluation