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On Thursday 4th July, I attended my first The Developer and Festival of Place conference at Wembley Box Park representing PLACED. It was an enriching day and lots of important topics were discussed with incisive

Active Travel Ambition: Liverpool City Region Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Conference A combined Active Travel England and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority event, we all met at the Floral Pavillion in New Brighton on a

I was lucky enough to be able to attend Pattern Festival recently. Pattern Festival isn’t like other place-based and built environment events, and that was clear from the outset as we were greeted by Manchester

UKREiiF was an experience. From arriving in Leeds on the Tuesday with a bag of fresh business cards and booklets, we felt the buzz from the event instantly. Jo and Sam had attended UKREiiF in

We’re excited to announce applications are OPEN for the PLACED Academy 2023-24 programme! Starting with a 4-day summer school in late July, the programme consists of monthly sessions that are packed full of creative and

We recently had the pleasure of travelling up to Penrith to run a workshop in partnership with The Joanna Scott Foundation. We were working with 25 year 10s from Ullswater Community College to present the built environment as

PLACED Senior Project Manager Dr. Samuel Hayes attended the Planner Live North annual conference, hosted by the RTPI and organised by the RTPI Northern branches. This year in Manchester, it focused on the three Cs

We’re delighted to announce that our #PLACEDAcademy 2024-25 Sponsorship offers are now LIVE! In our fresh new branding (designing by our participants themselves), we’ve put together a brochure of all the opportunities and packages available to support

We’ve joined UKREiiF 2024! We’re excited to be involved with the fantastic event which takes place 21-23 May in Leeds. We’ll be delivering a workshop, networking and bringing along some of our #PLACEDAcademyAlumni. Want to catch

We’ve relaunched our PLACED Academy Alumni this week! It promises to be an exciting network of brilliant opportunities for anyone who has completed 80% of a PLACED Academy Programme. You can ask to sign up

We’re excited to be launching our updated PLACED Academy Alumni today, offering a space for Academy graduates to be supported on the next steps of their journey. As part of the Academy Alumni, participants will

This week we ran a workshop with 37 students at Carmel College in St. Helens. The session aimed to design and build a life-sized prototype of a portable shelter. We tasked the students to consider