Successful regeneration planning and programmes require the application of a wide range of skills including strategic planning and concept definition, masterplanning and local action planning, community development and stakeholder engagement.

Urban decline and the problems it presents are caused by ongoing interaction between economic, social, physical, environmental and institutional factors.  Effective Urban Regeneration schemes have to be based on full understanding of these interactive processes and on effective ways of modifying their root causes.

Our Dynamic Planning method offers practical ways of promoting ‘joined up thinking’ amongst all relevant stakeholders, both those who influence change and those at the receiving end of it.  Through a series of workshops participants gain an insight into past interactions that caused the decline, and anticipate the path of future interactions that should regenerate the area.

The Lichfield Planning approach, which is rooted so firmly in integrated and dynamic planning, is ideal for public and private sector clients engaged in either major regeneration schemes or smaller projects at the grassroots level.

Our regeneration portfolio in the UK includes the residential estates such as Gascoigne in Barking and in Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets.  Internationally our Egi Project, social, economic and environmental regeneration of local rural communities is part of the wider integrated regeneration strategy of the Niger Delta Region.  In all these cases we were leading or working within a multidisciplinary team and our contribution focused on understanding complex causes and effects, involving all relevant stakeholders, and providing a strategy for delivery.