Public Engagement and Placemaking

Establishing thriving community projects creates ripple effects in the local areas. It can create a platform for communication between disconnected elements of a neighbourhood and a space where people can come together to feel like they can feel at home in a place.

Establishing thriving community projects creates ripple effects in the local areas

Bringing charities in to occupy a site before redevelopment is not only a way of cutting costs. It can engage the community about the change which is planned for the area and help lay the groundwork for permanent community projects to be housed in the development. 

We believe that placemaking is fundamentally about creating a space for community participation. When the community feel authorship and belonging where they live they are inextricably connected to that place and efforts from the community to help it thrive will naturally arise.

Charitable occupation can provide a prototype and a test case for developers who are serious about long-term community impact. In some cases, the charitable occupier can transition into becoming a long-term tenant within a commercial portion of the development.