Design

Shaping better places through high-quality, deliverable design

Our team of designers have a range of skills including architecture, urban design, urban planning and landscape, covering projects from strategic level and site visions through to reserved matters and detailed design. 

We work with our clients, communities, and decision makers to achieve high-quality design that creates places that are memorable, safe, inclusive, climate resilient and help to encourage health and well-being for current and future generations. 

We believe that the quality and resilience of the built and natural environment around us has a huge impact on all our lives and the planet itself and we take the responsibility of shaping its future very seriously.

Our clients include strategic land promoters, developers, funders, local planning authorities and other public sector organisations.

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Good design is vital in the creation of successful, sustainable and enduring places that bring delight

Our designs are founded on four key principles, creating places that people will value now and in the future.

Rooted in context

Our designs are based on understanding the unique DNA of a place.

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Considered for communities

Our designs are visionary but also attuned to authentic local experience and community aspiration.

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Developed for resilience

Our designs are viable and resilient, grounded in our exceptional understanding of what will make successful places thrive, socially, environmentally and economically, both now and in the future

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Strengthened by specialists

We understand wider factors and balance a range of impacts, often benefitting from collaboration with our fellow in-house service experts to enhance the art of shaping places

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We work on diverse sites across the UK and Ireland, ranging from major new settlements, sustainable urban extensions and strategic employment sites through to education and port and harbour regeneration.

"We strive to create places that people will love and care for and will ultimately stand the test of time."

Jeff Nottage
Jeff Nottage Director, Head of Design

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