Placemaking

Strategically partner with Plunkett UK and put community at the centre of your next new development

As a charity, we have a 100-year proven track record in placemaking and creating resilient, thriving and inclusive communities.

Therefore, it is important that our shared values and vision for community placemaking align. We selectively work with clients by forming a strategic partnership, with two options available:

  1. Set up a strategic placemaking partnership, which establishes a public-facing joint commitment to progressive placemaking and enables you to utlilise our credibility and reputation.
  2. Create an ongoing relationship with Plunkett and you can commission us on any site-specific consultancy projects.

Why choose Plunkett?

We have an unrivalled credibility with an authentic brand and impeccable reputation

As a truly independent and trusted convenor of community, we mediate the interaction with the existing community and local  authority helping the developer/promoter to achieve a faster and smoother journey through the planning process

We work with you to take away the liability of the community assets, empowering the community to adopt the infrastructure with the continuing support of Plunkett’s expertise

Taking an infrastructure-first approach builds trust early and building smaller scale infrastructure in tune with community needs is often cheaper and easier to maintain than traditional clusters of ‘symbol group’ alternatives

Strategic Placemaking Partnership – what do you get?

  • Use of our brand assets, logo, and charity mission across your company materials, such as website; emails; sales & marketing brochures; masterplanning documents; and planning applications

  • You can call us to ad hoc council meetings, masterplanning workshops, community consultations, industry events, and more

  • Our comms department will work with your in-house and agency teams to publicly announce our shared commitment to progressive placemaking

  • You can access our data, case studies, and evidence on community business

  • You have access to our community placemaking experience – we become your technical expert just as you would work with other consultants like transport, legal, BNG, etc.

“Working with Plunkett has aligned Thakeham with an organisation that has an impeccable reputation in supporting people to set up and run community-owned infrastructure.

“Plunkett’s longstanding expertise in community creation is unrivalled and we are extremely proud to be the first housebuilder and land promoter to be one of their Strategic Plackemaking Partners. I would urge any housing or development leader conscious of building a true legacy to consider partnering with Plunkett.”

Robert Boughton, CEO, Thakeham

Further resources

  • Plunkett Strategic Placemaking Partner Proposition – click here to read

  • Building sustainable, thriving, and inclusive rural communities where everyone is welcome White Paper, in partnership with Thakeham – click here to read

  • By the People, for the People – comment from Ben Holden about placemaking in the January 2025 edition of Show House magazine – click here to read

  • Community Ownership – a Better Form of Business: Our state-of-the-sector report 2024 – click here to read

  • Creating community in new places podcast, with Plunkett’s Harriet English in conversation with Tristan Robinson, Director of External Affairs and Social Value at Thakeham – click here to listen

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