Placemaking & Green Spaces
Creating communities and places to be proud of, where people and wildlife flourish.
Creating communities and places to be proud of, where people and wildlife flourish.
As a theory, placemaking has been with us for decades but in recent years it has formed the backbone of community development for hundreds of estates across the UK.
The concepts behind placemaking date back to the 1960s, when conversations first revolved around creating lively neighbourhoods and inviting public spaces. It’s an understanding that creating communities relies on more than just bricks and mortar. As the school of thought at the time suggested: ‘while we are good at putting up buildings…we are bad at making places.’
Today, placemaking strategies are recognised and accepted approaches for building communities and creating a legacy for generations to come.
A new development with a sustainable legacy provides a real opportunity for developers to be placemakers. And this is where Preim can help.
Since our journey began, Preim has worked with developers to create places where people love to live, work and visit. It’s our belief we are all placemakers: our development partners, residents, other stakeholders and, us - Preim, as the estate management company.
We work in partnership with responsible developers: house building companies that don’t pay lip service to community assets, legacy buildings and nurturing community links. They actually deliver on it, with our support.
We have real experience of placemaking projects and delivering legacies. Our partnerships with developers are making a positive contribution - with schemes being singled out for their ‘visionary’ approach.
Green spaces are often at the heart of placemaking. In our experience, they’re integral to creating places people are proud of.
When they’re managed well, green spaces look great, and become an asset for everyone within the community. They provide an opportunity to connect with nature, exercise, meet with neighbours and friends.
Creating community green space will have intrinsic benefits for everyone. There will be the social and leisure benefits as well as environmental. A balance of green open space enriches the environment of a community and will help maintain, and increase, property values.
Planning green space within a development to be communal and owned by a management company can also be an alternative, sustainable solution to satisfying a developer’s Section 106 obligations. There could also be cost saving on local authority adoption and commuted sums.
By outsourcing community green space management, developers and resident companies look to a professional estate maintenance service, such as Preim, to protect these important assets on their behalf. We understand the value of green space and communal facilities, and we collaborate to refine existing maintenance models or create bespoke maintenance contracts to meet your needs.
