About Us
An introduction to our working practice and members of our team.
About Us
Plan Projects works all over the country with clients from both the public and private sectors providing consultancy and project management services that enable place-makers to use cultural resources to deliver developments that possess both vitality and viability.
Working with a ‘civic’ rather than ‘arts’ based notion of culture, our work sits at the intersection of creative expression, economic development and social and environmental activism to promote urban revitalisation. Passionate about the need for co-production with community groups if our programmes are to be relevant, we have embraced urban agriculture, street food, urban sports and digital technologies as well as the visual and performing arts. We work proactively to supply the civic strength and adaptability so essential for sustained prosperity.
Within regeneration, our work manifests itself boldly in the form of ‘meanwhile’ uses, or with extreme subtly and sensitivity, for example within projects with vulnerable people designed to improve aspirations and address social issues; it has helped places faced with long term industrial decline diversify their economies and has been instrumental in improving people’s aspirations and skills within weak labour markets. Without it, regeneration and development risks failure through negative perceptions, weaknesses in addressing critical underlying issues and a poor sense of civic richness and identity.
Our core team and associates include experts in economic development, community engagement, social infrastructure, event production, environmental sustainability and business planning; we sit along-side developers, urban designers, architects and town planners and those whose concern is the delivery of sustainable communities.
Please visit the ‘what we do’ section for details about specific services.