Placemaking - Turley

Before plans, before process, before preconceptions – place comes first.

As trusted independent advisors to the built environment, we understand that place is about so much more than the physical bricks and mortar. They are socially, economically and culturally rich; dynamic environments that prioritise people – all people. An exceptional place must work for everyone with inclusivity at its core. This knowledge underpins our place first approach in practice.

Our pioneering Place Studio brings together expert disciplines behind one vision

Our newly created Place Studio, a collaborative, cross-discipline team of experts from across our eight services – Design, Economics, EIA, Expert Witness, Heritage, Townscape and Landscape, Planning, Strategic Communications and Sustainability and ESG – puts place first and works with our clients to deliver communities that thrive.

We shape places that respond to real people, evolving behaviours and local context.

Working across the UK and Ireland, we add value at every stage of the placemaking journey, from early vision-setting and site strategy through to delivery. Our offer ranges from Place Appraisals at the very outset, to Place Workshops and Place Frameworks through to Place Audits and Place Impact Reports once a development is complete. We bring together strategic planning, market insights and user-led thinking to help our clients create places that are commercially robust, socially valuable and resilient to long-term change.

Our approach combines evidence-led insight, inclusive engagement and cross-disciplinary expertise to define what will make a place distinctive, viable and successful over time. By aligning development proposals with community needs, investor priorities and public-sector objectives, we help clients unlock value, secure consent and deliver places that genuinely work – for people, for partners and for the long term.