2024 September’s PCUK trip took members to Folkestone on the Kent coast. Folkestone is regularly featured as a success story for regenerated coastal towns with a unique arts and tourism-led model.
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Bradford, the UK’s City of Culture in 2025, was the location for the Place Collective UK’s latest excursion.
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The first PCUK field trip of 2025 took place in Bradford, we couldn’t miss the opportunity to check out this year’s City of Culture. On a sunny Tuesday afternoon Jamie Saunders and Saira Ali from Bradford City Council were our hosts, taking us around in the city centre.
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In August 2024 PCUK Wales met in Wales’ newest city Wrexham to undertake a council-led tour of the city’s ongoing programme of regeneration projects - which have a strong placemaking focus grounded in the work of the current placemaking plan, and a high ambition with the work underway towards the UK City of Culture submission.
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PCUK members have asked us to organise field trips outside working hours – we listened and were thrilled to run the first evening field trip around London's Soho on 11 July. We were really lucky and got to see the neighbourhood in its element on a lovely summer Thursday evening!
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In late June 2024, PCUK travelled to Amsterdam for its first ever study visit abroad! After connecting with fellow placeshaping enthusiasts from the City of Amsterdam at Placemaking Week Europe 2023, PCUK was invited to tour two exciting and evolving neighbourhoods. Worlds away from the historic centre of Amsterdam lies the rapidly changing Amsterdam Noord.
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In March 2024, PCUK travelled to Newcastle to learn about the ambitious plans of transforming the city into the gateway of North East of England. To explore the changing identities of the city, our walkabout covered Forth Yards (Quayside West), The Helix and Ouseburn.
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For our first field trip of 2024, Place Collective UK visited Barking, East London. Be First’s, David Harley and local partners walked us through a comprehensive tour of Barking's regeneration, from energy centres to town centre residential, alongside flagship workspace and cultural schemes. We got to understand the vision of the area against a backdrop of high deprivation and population growth along with fascinating insights into local cultural and heritage aspects. Who knew Barking was once the busiest fishing port in the world?
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Placemaking Collective UK were kindly invited back to Jason Bruges Studio on 31st May 2023 for the collective’s second Pitch Party! It was a dynamic event of insightful debate and discussion challenging the built environment’s status quo.
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Leeds, a fast-changing and happening regional hub, is attracting transformational investment to drive its net zero agenda and objectives of sustainable economic growth, and innovation. There is a marked push for traffic-free areas and sustainable active travel modes. In one packed afternoon, we were fortunate to visit three significant ongoing projects that are transforming vast areas south of River Aire, of which many have a glorious industrial past. The tour bookended with a visit to the iconic Leeds Corn Exchange to see how a major recently completed public realm project contributed to a renewed vibrancy of this important central site.
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