About Us

Independent, agile, offering bespoke and tailored solutions.

We are a team of specialists, with broad experience across all sectors.  

We have lived experience having conceived, built and run social vehicle portfolios and various multi-use spaces  

Part of the Place Collective network, we have over 50 specialists in our network who provide skills and expertise from:

  • place identity

  • master planning

  • ground floor, public realm and non-residential strategies (commercial, community and workspace)

  • strategies for reimagining and delivering underused buildings and sites

  • governance and delivery models including social purpose vehicle strategy and delivery

  • business planning

  • community and stakeholder engagement

  • impact measurement and storytelling

Paul Augarde

Alex Russell

Director

Director

Senior Consultant

Consultant

Daniel McCarthy

Jamie Robinson

Director

Associate Director

Herta Gatter

Abi Kelly

Our Associates

  • Adam is a cultural strategist and regeneration expert with over 15 years of leadership experience. He led Derby’s UK City of Culture 2025 bid, securing major investment and forging strong community and corporate partnerships.

    As former CEO of QUAD, he oversaw one of the UK’s top multi-artform centres, launched a successful digital enterprise arm, and drove audience engagement. Adam brings a track record of culture-led growth, stakeholder collaboration, and innovative approaches to funding and placemaking.

Adam Buss

  • Andrew is a regeneration, placemaking, and marketing professional with 15 years of experience. He currently works as a freelance consultant, advising on socio-economic strategies, and previously led regeneration in Shoreditch and Hoxton for six years.

    Known for building high-performing teams and delivering impactful results, Andrew combines strategic thinking with commercial and financial insight. He’s represented clients at a corporate level and is committed to continuous learning, talent development, and applying innovative approaches to complex urban challenges.

Andrew Scott

  • Dale is a successful urbanist with three decades of experience. During that time, he has worked for both the private and public sectors in some of the most challenging locations in England, Wales and the Middle East.

    Dale has worked at all scales (from leading large-scale, mixed-use masterplans to creating award winning community workspaces) and in a wide range of roles, as a consultant and interim leader. His approach is collaborative, people focussed and seeks to deliver positive change for places and people.

Dale Thomson

  • Dori is an experienced community planner who has supported urban and rural areas in developing neighbourhood plans, working closely with local councils and diverse community groups. She has strong expertise in policy-making around high street revitalisation, ecology, brownfield regeneration, and green space access.

    With a background in researching adaptive reuse of industrial heritage sites, Dori brings a focus on social sustainability. Her work combines thorough research with practical design strategies to balance local character with housing and infrastructure needs.

Dori Faludi

  • Jenny is a public policy, strategy, and development professional with deep expertise in affordable housing, planning, placemaking, and asset management. She has led projects involving strategy development, policy analysis, financial modelling, and service commissioning.

    She has worked across the public, private, and third sectors—particularly in arts and culture—creating business plan models and asset performance tools. Her work supports organisations in testing development scenarios and shaping effective property strategies and improvement plans.

Jenny Cockburn

  • Paula is a socioeconomic regeneration expert with experience delivering community-led outcomes alongside large-scale housing regeneration. She builds cross-sector partnerships to drive sustainable local delivery and maximise social impact.

    Previously at Peabody, she led major operational programmes and transformed its social value approach in procurement. Now CEO of Socioeconomics, she works with organisations like GoodPeople to support inclusive employment and green jobs through strategic engagement and partnership development across London and beyond.

Paula Hines

  • Valeria is a regeneration and engagement specialist with a strong background in policy, programme delivery, and stakeholder management. She has led multidisciplinary work across local government, including youth violence, adult social care, and service transformation. Previously in Redbridge, she oversaw a major Community Hubs Programme and led a Health and Wellbeing Team in the voluntary sector.

    Valeria brings expertise in partnerships, governance, and strategic communications. Passionate about community-led design, she improves lives through innovative, place-based solutions rooted in local insight.

  • Sam is a regeneration and development consultant with experience across public, private, and third sector projects in the UK and Ireland. Much of his work has focused on London, supporting 13 boroughs, the GLA, TfL, and key regeneration areas like the Royal Docks and King’s Cross.

    Previously at Partnering Regeneration Development, he specialised in socio-economic research and impact strategy. Notable projects include Hackney Central’s Town Centre Strategy and a long-term placemaking impact study for IPUT Real Estate.

Sam Franks

Valeria Carrizo