A nationwide placemaker powered by its regional strength

From Wakefield to St Helens, Wolverhampton and Bristol, our model is delivering real, lasting, impact to communities. It is an approach to regeneration which is deeply rooted in place and driven by committed regional leaders who are backed by national expertise and partnerships.

Over the last 40 years we have earnt a reputation as one of the nation’s leading placemakers. We have delivered complex, mixed-use regeneration and contributed to the positive transformation of towns, cities, and communities up and down the country.

While we are backed by the resources and capabilities of a nationwide organisation, it is our empowered regional teams that truly allows us to grow, and act as genuine delivery partners in every place we are involved.

From Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester, our regional businesses work to truly embed themselves as local placemaking partners. We have built strong teams of local experts who apply their knowledge in the places they know best.

Every project can benefit from a team which is embedded in the community they serve. One which can deliver tailored solutions that reflect the unique history, geography and ambitions of each location. One that can build genuine connections to local people, priorities, and an understanding of the potential of place through regeneration.

By unleashing this autonomy, each local business is also agile. Our teams can quickly make decisions and adapt to changes.

We work hard to overcome challenges, using our local expertise to come up with creative and innovative solutions to problems. This makes us great partners for local stakeholders and the supply chains we invest and engage with across the country.

This local strength is amplified by a highly experienced central team. It is one that provides strategic support across key disciplines including sustainability, finance, marketing, legal, HR, and placemaking best practice – ensuring knowledge and learnings are shared across the business. This makes certain that every regional team benefits from the insights and innovation gained on projects nationwide.

Working together with our local authority partners in the places we are delivering, we can increase our impact by linking-in our national partnerships too.

ECF, our national partnership with L&G and Homes England, is an example of how working together can support the delivery of two decades of impactful, local, results. The same can be said for Waterside Places with the Canal & River Trust, and Habiko, our newest national partnership with PIC and Homes England.

Our model has allowed us to go above and beyond in the places we work, time and time again. We believe that every project should add to the social fabric of an area and create a better future for the whole community. It should evoke a sense of pride in place among those who live and work in an area. Our regional teams fully understand and champion these principles best, because of the genuine connections they hold locally.