Clients: NHS England, Barking & Dagenham Council, Care City, Homes England, South Cambridgeshire and Northstowe Councils

We co-led the development phase of the Barking Riverside Healthy New Town demonstrator site in North East London, producing a funded delivery plan based on researcher and practitioner input of evidence and good practice alongside extensive community engagement. Integral to the approach are ‘Healthy New Town Principles’ now embedded in the S106 planning agreement between the council and developer.

In South Cambridgeshire, we worked with landscape architects Chris Blandford Associates and Tim Gill of Rethinking Childhood to devise a play and healthy living strategy for Northstowe Healthy New Town (commissioned by Homes England) which was shortlisted for the prestigious Landscape Institute Awards 2018. This work features as a case study in Design Codes for Health and Wellbeing (Quality of Life Foundation, March 2025).