As part of improvements to the public open spaces and facilities in the street, the ACS for Chancery Lane presents the role of cultural activity in attracting more visitors and diversifying the investment potential of the area and thereby contributing to its regeneration.

The ACS for Trumpington Meadows looked at how cultural projects of different kinds could play a role in embedding sustainability into this major urban extension on the southern fringe of the city of Cambridge.

Plan was commissioned by Nikal to produce an outline ACS for the Altair site, a major mixed use development, in Altrincham to support their bid to become the preferred developer for the Altrincham General Hospital.

Plan was appointed through Salford URC to develop an ACS for Pendleton in the context of the ‘Creating a New Pendleton’ project.

Enabling the Disctrict Council to give developers proper guidance on how to discharge planning conditions and obligations relating to public art

Following the creation of a masterplan by Will Alsop, Bioregional Quintain asked Plan Projects to devise an Area Cultural Strategy that would consider how cultural activity of different sorts could contribute to the physical regeneration of the Middlehaven site.

Taylor Wimpey approached Plan to put together an ACS for their ‘Evolution’ Development in the heart of Peckham.

The strategy for West Quay Marina looked at the role of public art practice in the regeneration of this key site on Poole Harbour. The document, the first that had been commissioned in the Poole area, provided the local authority with a model and template that the local authority has gone on to use to develop public art projects in the town in the future.

Plan was appointed by Westminster City Council to produce an arts strategy as part of the ORB Action Plan; its purpose is to improve these streets both as public places and shopping destinations.

Creation and implementation of the art programme for phase two of the PaddingtonCentral development in London

Development of a public realm arts programme as part of the retail-led regeneration of Darlington Town Centre.

Plan was commissioned by Aedas Architects to work up a strategy for art in the public realm at the Temple Gate site in Bristol.

Developed programme for art in the street leading to the commissioning of architectural light sculptures integrated into the remodelled environment of New Burlington Place to promote pedestrian footfall and sense of identity.

Plan worked with Westfield Shoppingtowns and the public art team at Derby City Council to put together a comprehensive programme for art in the public realm at the Eagle Centre shopping centre in the city centre.

Plan Projects was commissioned by The Junction to produce a cultural project that would help the developer cultivate a positive relationship with the community living close to one of their retail parks in Brent. Working with the marketing and corporate social responsibility team, Plan set up projects with three local secondary schools and implemented a series of projects involving the production and exhibition of works of art by students.

Devising an artistic treatment to the children’s recreation space as part of the wholesale regeneration of the Pepys Estate. 

Plan Projects worked with MHS Homes to devise a cultural project to contribute to the regeneration of a residential housing estate consisting of three residential blocks in Rochester.

In October 2011, Plan Projects formed a team to respond to a tender issued by the London borough of Brent to develop viable ‘meanwhile’ uses for one or two of the vacant premises clustered at Wembley Triangle; a second part of the tender asked for a strategy to develop a meanwhile colony at Wembley, to deliver a more sustainable, community orientated cultural strand to council’s regeneration vision for the area.

In December 2010 Plan Projects formed a team to take part in a competition offered by Newham Council, Design for London and Property Week magazine. They had identified three sites close to the Royal Docks in East London that were suitable for ‘Meanwhile’ projects. These are creative, community-centric temporary uses for development sites and empty premises that are awaiting development or long term commercial use.

Plan was required to oversee the commission of an art work for the interior of Greycoat’s new office tower at 30 Crown Place; as well as contribute to the overall sense of refinement and beauty within the interior its purpose was to mask an unsightly electricity substation facing the interior lobby.

Plan Projects was commissioned by the developers Londonewcastle and United House to put together the Public Art component to their development at Wenlock Basin.

The commission for Heddon Street sought to employ the creativity of artists to assert the identity of the street as a place of creativity and recreation within the West End and as one of the Food Quarters of Regent Street.

Commission for a water sculpture within the landscaped gardens at the development. 

Commissioning a work of art along Maida Vale to create a sense of privacy and a striking landmark. 

Plan Projects was asked to source a sculpture for this prestige residential development in Teddington, South West London.

Delivery of a work of public work of art in their Yallops Yard scheme, a major residential development of affordable housing, in Bow in East London.

Commission to procure a work of art to create a powerful artistic presence at a residential development on the Grand Union Canal.