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The King’s Place scheme, in London’s up-and-coming SE1 district, will bring together a mix of uses and users in a new community that will have a significant regenerative impact on its local area and benefit to local people and the wider economy. This came about through a clear, compelling vision with an appreciation that ‘people make places’ at its heart.

The c.190,000 sq.ft. scheme designed by architects Allies and Morrison is set around a new public courtyard and comprises new housing (50% affordable), a community hotel, co-work space (supported by a local business incubator initiative), restaurant/retail offerings (including a new roof-top café/bar) and, at its heart, a new much-needed community hub that will be free-to-use by the local community.

As part of a small, values-driven and ambitious client team, we have worked together and in collaboration with partners and stakeholders to bring this vision to reality. Firstly, we helped shape the vision and strategy, then we set about assembling a substantial site through multiple acquisitions and securing the necessary investment/finance. Next, we selected, directed and oversaw a leading consultant team and management/operating partner to take the project forward through design evolution, planning/public consultation to planning consent. Our next step is to secure finance to develop out the scheme.