New client: appointment by Tameside Council to champion a new model for transport-led regeneration
We are proud to announce our appointment by Tameside Council to help tell the borough’s impressive regeneration and growth story, and support the positioning of Tameside as one of the UK’s most compelling investment and partnership opportunities today. Tameside’s transformation has been driven by an ambitious local authority and its recently established Growth Unit, working […]
Interview in Green Street News with Muse on regional growth, partnerships and navigating a complex market
We recently secured an interview for Muse’s Managing Director for the South region, Simon Harding-Roots, with Green Street News, exploring how the business is shaping its next phase of growth under Simon’s leadership. In the interview, Simon outlines Muse’s ambition to grow its regional business by 50% over the next three years, by remaining focused on […]
The Culture Mile lights up the City with Vibrance
Our client, The Culture Mile BID, launched ‘Vibrance’ last week, a brand new arts festival in collaboration with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the City of London Corporation. This fantastic event, turning the City’s historic landmarks into a canvas with dream-like large-scale projections, operatic performances, classical South Indian dance and more, was […]
Sugar House Island: from sinking industrial site to incubator for innovation
A four-page feature by Akanksha Soni in Estates Gazette this week explores the evolution of Sugar House Island and the long-term vision behind its transformation, on behalf of our client Vastint. Vastint’s Head of Portfolio UK, Dan Westley, looks back on how the ambition for an ‘Island of Opportunity’ has been realised over time, navigating challenges […]
Muse selected to help shape Bristol Temple Quarter
This week, we announced our client Muse has been appointment as the preferred development partner for Bristol Temple Quarter (BTQ). The BTQLLP has selected Muse to lead the transformation of Temple Meads West and St Philip’s Marsh, a major regeneration programme that will deliver up to 10,000 new homes alongside commercial space, improved connectivity and […]
If the arts are to thrive, they must learn to “speak corporate” says Culture Mile BID
The UK’s arts and culture sector is under growing pressure . The number of plays and musicals staged has fallen by almost a third over the past decade. GLA figures reveal that six in 10 LGBTQ+ venues have closed since 2006, while local authority arts funding has dropped by 50 per cent since 2010. […]
Vastint UK appoints Penny Cameron as its new Managing Director
Penny has over 30 years’ experience delivering high-profile, mixed-use regeneration and residential schemes, joining Vastint UK after almost three years as head of development at URW, where she was responsible for the company’s significant mixed-use UK development pipeline. Now leading Vastint’s nationwide development strategy across regeneration projects including Sugar House Island in East London, […]
Spotlighting DSQ’s vital role in Destination City
This year marked a major milestone for our client Devonshire Square (DSQ) with the opening of Sir Devonshire Square, the Sircle Collection’s first hotel in the UK. Following engagement with the City of London Corporation, including a tour of Devonshire Square and briefings around the hotel opening, DSQ featured in a City A.M. op-ed by Tom Sleigh, […]
Heritage isn’t holding the City back, it’s helping define what comes next
In an article for New London Architecture, Coverdale Barclay Associate Director Kelly Kerruish explores how historic buildings are driving the City of London’s evolution into a more mixed-use, cultural and leisure-led destination. Using BOXHALL City as a case study, which we were proud to support the launch of earlier this year, Kelly looks at how sensitive […]
The course of politics never did run smooth: what the Autumn Budget continues to teach us (again) about crisis communications
As the dust slowly settles on the Autumn Budget – historic for all the wrong reasons – Rachel Reeves and other members of the Government have been doing the round to defend the content. Meanwhile journalists, experts and opposition politicians alike are dissecting the details. Much to the dismay of the Government, the OBR accidentally […]