Enabling Communities, New London Agenda

03 February 2025

The future of design codes

Sharon Giffen, Head of Design at Earls Court Development Company, reflects on the future of design codes, highlighting Earls Court’s peer-reviewed approach and its role as a benchmark.

Diverse Leaders, Enabling Communities

05 November 2024

Power to the people

NLA’s Connie Hatt meets Diane Foster, Director of A Space for Us to discuss the struggle to protect working-class heritage amid the drive for development in central London.

Enabling Communities

05 November 2024

Circular Kitchen: A Cradle to Cradle experiment

Members from Stride Treglown reflect on our breakfast talk, Nourishing Communities, where they explored climate-related initiatives from a wide range of sustainable practices.

Enabling Communities

06 February 2024

Learning from locals: Driving value from post occupancy evaluation

Matthew Morgan from the Quality of Life Foundation reflects on our latest event, learning from post-occupancy evaluations conducted in London to analyse what the industry can learn.

Enabling Communities

17 October 2022

Community Engagement in Areas of Significant Change

Greg Jones, Child Graddon Lewis, reports from our recent Community Programme Think Tank, exploring community engagement in areas of significant change.

Enabling Communities

08 June 2022

King's Cross Community Offer: Exhibition Revealed

Earlier this year, together with King’s Cross, we revealed the eight shortlisted teams for our King’s Cross Community Offer competition. The shortlisted teams’ proposals can now be viewed at a local e...

Enabling Communities

11 April 2022

Meaningful community engagement can reshape our neighbourhoods.

Carlotta Jansen of Weston Williamson + Partners reports from the recent Working together: collaborative regeneration webinar.

Enabling Communities

24 March 2022

NLA & King’s Cross reveal shortlisted teams for new community offer competition

NLA reveals the teams that have been shortlisted for a competition launched in partnership with King’s Cross in January 2022, which invited individuals, community groups, established and emerging ente...

Enabling Communities

07 February 2022

NLA and Southwark Council reveal winner of Bramcote Park design competition

Southwark-based, award-winning design and architecture collective Assemble has won the Revive Bramcote Park competition organised by New London Architecture (NLA) and Southwark Council. The collective...

Enabling Communities

17 January 2022

NLA and King’s Cross Partnership launch competition for new community offer

New London Architecture and Argent LLP launch a new competition on behalf of King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP). Together, the organisers are inviting anyone with a great, new idea that...

Enabling Communities

01 December 2021

Revive Bramcote Park: Exhibition

Exhibition about the six shortlisted teams for our ‘Revive Bramcote Park’ competition. The shortlisted teams will display their proposals at a local exhibition at Links Community Hall (353 Rotherhithe...

Enabling Communities

25 November 2021

Shortlist for NLA & Southwark Council Bramcote Park re-vamp revealed

NLA and Southwark Council announce the six design collaborations that have been shortlisted in the Revive Bramcote Park design competition.

Enabling Communities

20 September 2021

New London Architecture and Southwark Council launch competition for transformation of Bramcote Park

The NLA and Southwark Council have announced a new competition for a transformative redesign of Bramcote Park in South Bermondsey, to create a safe, welcoming and inclusive park that is shaped by the...

Enabling Communities

17 August 2021

We must make inclusion a key driver of planning decisions

Clare Richards of ft'work responds to our blog piece on Accessible London: creating inclusive spaces and pushes for a broader definition of ‘inclusive design’ to include communities in the planning po...

Enabling Communities

17 May 2021

Collective Community Action

London needs to better involve the public in planning – an NLA Think Tank looked at what the London Mayor can do to achieve this. ft'work's Founder Clare Richards reports on the session.

Enabling Communities

26 April 2021

What makes great places? Places for People and Arup join forces to launch design guide

In their new design guide, Places for People Group and global engineering and design consultancy Arup, bring together their collective expertise to propose the universal qualities and principles of gr...

Enabling Communities

25 February 2021

A true city is powered by the people

One way to enable evidence-based decision making by cities is to integrate physical and digital urban infrastructure and identify usage patterns and emerging trends. However, as cities become increasi...

Enabling Communities

17 September 2020

Community is fundamental to our quality of life and ‘building back stronger’

Quality of Life Foundation’s Sadie Morgan argues that community is fundamental to our quality of life and ‘building back better’. QoLF’s recent research report found that people felt Covid-19 had brou...

Enabling Communities

25 June 2020

Soapbox: Buildings for the Community

Jonathan Manns, Board Director and Head of Planning and Development at Rockwell, argues that working with communities should always be paying more than lip-service and that doing good with local proje...

Enabling Communities

18 June 2020

Hadley steers Goodmayes engagement to hard-to-reach groups

Hadley Property Group aims high with its new engagement tools, both digitally and offline, to get to hard-to-reach groups and improve its mixed use Goodmayes project in Redbridge with Clarion Housing...

Enabling Communities

12 June 2020

Consultation and engagement – the new normal?

Account Director at London Communications Agency Sam Cranston looks at the opportunities to reach more people that have arisen in the crucial fields of consultation and engagement - by embracing both...

Enabling Communities

27 May 2020

Rainbow bridge artwork unites community and thanks essential workers

Architect Andrew Morris, Bow Arts Trust and Notting Hill Genesis join with community to offer message of hope and symbol of thanks for essential workers in rainbow bridge artwork

Enabling Communities

07 May 2020

‘New Normal’? We’ll have to fight for it

Clare Richards, founder of ft’work, argues that as lockdown eases we will have to all fight to keep the best elements of the ‘new normal’ – such as a renewed sense of community – in place

Enabling Communities

30 April 2020

Community matters - time for a people-centred approach

We are dealing with a once in a lifetime crisis. This is an unprecedented situation that will affect people across all continents simultaneously and will have significant long-term impacts.

Enabling Communities

17 April 2020

BECG unveils corona-proof engagement plans

Keeping it virtual — BECG account director Chris Ricot takes a look at ‘corona-proof engagement’ using virtual, online tools for effective consultation and — hopefully — an improved planning process.