The conversation around what makes cities liveable is at the heart of what we do at Planit-IE. We believe that this question isn’t answered by large architectural gestures but by many individuals collaborating together, and we recently had the opportunity to express this through The Liveable City Open Competition: Leeds Eastside, launched by the Leeds Civic Trust.
We are proud to announce that Planit-IE is officially part of the B Corp UK community!
After transforming spaces into places for people for over two decades, we’re excited to announce that we have become a Certified B Corporation, making a formal commitment to creating a more inclusive and sustainable economy through our work.
Public consultation has opened this week for the former Gould Street Gasworks site in Manchester as the development team welcome the public’s thoughts and feedback on the current proposals to transform the current site into a thriving new urban neighbourhood and a key piece in the Northern Gateway development.
Today’s Rise and Shine was our first without Planit-IE croissants for all! We usually pile into the studio on a Wednesday morning for a shared breakfast and uplifting session aimed at developing our understanding, increasing knowledge and challenging perceptions. After a brief hiatus, whilst everyone adjusted to working from home, Steve Conor’s ‘Sustainability Communications – Winning Hearts and Minds’ talk was a great way to kickstart the programme again via Zoom.
Gateshead Council’s development partner “Ask:PATRIZIA”, has submitted a full planning application for the £260m arena, conference and exhibition centre on Gateshead Quays.
Planit is supporting the RHS campaign ‘Green Plan It’ – with that name, how could we forego?
Children have had the opportunity to design their own playscape for a planned city centre park through a series of collaborative workshops and drop-in sessions. A prototype play structure has been fabricated as a temporary installation at Mayfield, with the hope of influencing the final design of the city park, set at the heart of this redevelopment scheme.
This week, Managing Director Pete Swift set off on a 300 mile charitable cycle ride from Oslo to Stavanger.
We kicked off our year in practice by jetting off to Copenhagen, immersed within the Planit family from the get-go. This gave us a wonderful opportunity to really get to know our colleagues from all studios. We spent two days on bikes visiting some of Copenhagen’s great public realm and had a lot of fun along the way.READ MORE
Shoppers, diners and businesses in Stockport will soon be able to enjoy a town-centre parklet and pocket park; a mini park featuring seating, greenery and cycle parking. The pocket park has been installed in a previously under-used part of Bridgefield Street which has been transformed by planting and a vibrant art wall, with a concrete table tennis table and chimes for children to play with.