We work across regeneration schemes, mixed-use cultural and community hubs, new library developments, and existing cultural or co-located community businesses.
Our Services
Community and Culture Hubs
PlaceCulture provides full client-side project management, spanning capital delivery, stakeholder engagement, change management, and policy and strategy development.
We specialise in the co-location and redevelopment of cultural assets, integrating community and retail uses to create sustainable cultural and community hubs. Our work ranges from concise strategic reviews—offering clear insight on resilience, governance, and delivery—through to fully actionable commercial plans and market assessments for every business element.
IRegeneration and Place Making
We develop alternative and innovative concepts from the earliest stages of an idea or identified community need. Our work includes business cases and fully actionable business plans for mixed-use and hybrid schemes .
For existing buildings, we provide condition surveys, business and market viability reports, and options appraisals to guide redevelopment.
We also support bids through concept and pitch development, stakeholder engagement, local negotiations with operators and partners, community consultation, and soft market testing.
Libraries and Co-located Services
We support policy development, project and change management, stakeholder engagement, and short strategic reviews at any stage. Our commercial planning is fully actionable, with particular expertise in co-located services spanning culture, food and drink, events, and community-curated programmes.
We also bring specialist insight into the challenges and benefits of community co-production, and into the impacts of co-locating wider local government services—ensuring these factors are understood and built into delivery outcomes.
Culture Venues and Charities
We provide business planning and operational support to all sorts of cultural venues, charities and businesses. We have a particular strength in financial and business strategy including maximisation by key business area, also in yield management across programme and retail elements.
We write development and growth strategies including programme and diversification plans for new business, and we undertake stakeholder and market review.
We have also have detailed sector experience in food & drink operations, front of house design and in management of the welcome agenda.