What is Placemaking?
Placemaking is not one thing, it involves working collaboratively across sectors and disciplines to comprehensively consider the future development and shaping of distinctive and vibrant places.
Placemaking Charter
The Placemaking Wales Charter has been developed by Welsh Government and the Design Commission for Wales in collaboration with the Placemaking Wales Partnership – a multi-disciplinary group representing professions and organisations working within the built and natural environment.
The Charter builds on the strengthening focus on Placemaking in policy and practice in Wales and aims to provide a common understanding of the range of considerations that go into placemaking. The charter outlines six placemaking principles that cover the range of considerations that contribute to establishing and maintaining good places.
Placemaking Wales Charter
Sets out the six placemaking principles that signatories agree to promote.
Signatories
The following organisations have signed up to the Charter.
Access Design Solutions
AHR Architects
Ainsley Gommon Architects
Amdani
Analog Architecture
Arcadis
Arden Kitt Associates Ltd
Arup
Austin-Smith:Lord
Barton Willmore
BDP
BE Group
Benham Architects
Benjamin Hale Architects
Benthyg Cymru
Benthyg Penarth
Bridgend County Borough Council
Bron Afon Housing Association
Building with Nature*
C2J Architects and Town Planners
Cadw*
Cadwyn Housing Association
Caerphilly County Borough Council / Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Caerffili
Candleston Homes
Cardiff Community Housing Association
Cardiff Community Land Trust
Cardiff University*
Caredig
Carmarthenshire County Council
CFW Architects
Chamberlain Moss King Architecture
Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)*
Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT)*
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)*
Childs Sulzmann Architects
Chris Jones
Clwyd Alyn
Coastal Housing Group
Cogitamus Ltd
Commonplace
Community Housing Cymru (CHC)*
Cowbridge with Llanblethian Town Council
Creu Architecture
Cwmpas
Cymunedoli Cyf
Dallas-Pierce-Quintero
Dandara West Ltd
Design Commission for Wales
Dow Jones Architects
Down to Earth Project
Edenstone Group
Element Urbanism
Fenton+Reece
First Choice Housing Association Ltd
Future Generations Commissioner for Wales’ Office*
Federation of Master Builders (FMB)*
FOR Cardiff
Fraser Strategic Land
Gaunt Francis Architects
George and Co
Good Homes Alliance
GRIMSHAW Architects
Grŵp Cynefin
Hammond Architectural Ltd
Heartflood
Highlight Planning
HILLS + CO
HLN Ltd
Holder Mathias Architects
Home Builders Federation (HBF)*
Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN)
Hughes Architects
Hughes:O'Hanlon Architects
Huw Griffiths Architects
IBI Group
Incremental
Institute of Highways Engineers*
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)*
Isle of Anglesey County Council
Jackson Concepts
John McCall Architects
JPS Civil and Structural Engineers
KJG Architects
Knight Architects
Landscape Institute (IL)*
Land Studio Ltd
Lawray Architects
LDA Consulting Ltd
Lichfields
Lightwood Planning
Linc Cymru
Lovell Partnerships Ltd
Loyn + Co Architects
Mace Group
Maindee Unlimited
Medrwn Mon
Melin Homes
Merthyr Valleys Homes
MGMA Architects
Midas Group Ltd
Miller Research (UK) Ltd
Monmouthshire County Council
Mott MacDonald Ltd
Nash Partnership
Natural Resources Wales (NRW)*
National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICfW)*
Neath Port Talbot Council
Newport City Homes
Newydd Housing Association
Noel Isherwood Architects
Norman Rourke Pryme
One Newport PSB
OPEN (Optimised Environments Ltd)
Owen Davies Consulting Ltd
Oxford Architects
Penarth Civic Society
Penarth Living Streets
Pentan Architects
PER Consulting Ltd
Persimmon Homes East Wales
Persimmon Homes West Wales
Phil Jones Associates
Planning Aid Wales*
Planning Officers Society for Wales (POSW)*
Play Wales*
PLPlanning
Pobl
Powell Dobson Architects
Quattro Design Architects
Ramblers Cymru
Red River Archaeology
Redrow Homes Limited
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
Rhondda Housing Association
Richards Moorehead and Laing Ltd
Ritchie*Studio
Roberts Limbrick
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)*
Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW)*
Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)*
Saer Architects
SaveTheHighStreet.org
Situated Studio Ltd
SLR
Spring Design Consultancy Limited
St. Modwen Developments Ltd
Starki Limited
Stiwdio Owens
Stride Treglown
Studio Response
Studio Walmsley Architects
Sustrans*
Swansea Council
Swansea Co-Housing
Tir Collective Landscape Architects
Tirion Homes
The Architectural Heritage Fund
The Environmental Dimension Partnership (EDP)
The Means
The Open Spaces Society
The Three National Parks of Wales
The Urbanists
Torfaen County Borough Council
Transport for Wales*
United Welsh
Unit3 Design Studio Ltd
Urban Foundry
Vale of Glamorgan Council
Valleys to Coast
Wates Residential
Wavehill Ltd
Wei Yang + Partners
Welsh Local Government Association*
Welsh Government*
West Coast Arboriculture & Land Planning Ltd
Wrexham County Borough Council
*Members of the Placemaking Wales Partnership
Sign up to the Charter
We welcome any organisation involved in shaping the built environment to sign up to the Charter.
To do this please complete your details below and tick the agreement box. Once this has been received the name of your organisation will be added to the list of signatories above and you will be sent the Charter logo to use.
You will also receive relevant news and information, unless you wish to opt out.
Charter sign up
Placemaking resources
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Resource PDF
Placemaking Wales Guide
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Resource PDF
Site and Context Analysis Guide: Capturing the value of a site
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Resource PDF
Design Commission publishes Places for Life II
Placemaking news
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