Town centres and neighbourhood centres face difficult times as local retail continues to suffer and community and health services are forced to scale back to respond to budgets.
In designing these much-needed community spaces and facilities, flexibility is paramount. The ability to accommodate different uses, needs, and spatial arrangements and to do so for long-term leases or short-term ‘pop-ups’ is vital for the health and culture of a community.
Our work currently looks at how such a retail and community offer can be accommodated as part of a regeneration that includes the reworking of the public realm, including squares, parks, and boulevards.
