SOCIAL IMPACT
PROPERTY DEVELOPERS, INVESTORS AND OPERATORS.
We dream up ways to turn unloved spaces into brilliant new places.
We love great architecture, offbeat design and everything we do has a positive social impact.
In the last 10 years, we’ve completed over 2m sq ft of development and spend over £3m a week on regeneration. Right now, we’re cracking on with over 2.5m sq ft of development across commercial, residential, hotel and leisure sectors.
We’re only just getting going and on the lookout for the next place to take our tried and tested model of meaningful regeneration to.
We don’t move on after we’ve laid the last brick. Instead, we manage all our developments in house, from viewings and lettings, to community management and resident events.
Taking on challenging sites is what really gets us going, it’s where we see the biggest positive social impact. We’re pros at addressing market failures and finding innovative solutions to help local authorities reach their housing targets and revamp high streets, whilst raising the bar in terms of design.
Our neighbourhoods are designed to bring people together through thoughtful design and a curated mix of placemaking activations that benefit residents and locals from the wider community.
£3m
spent on regeneration each week
£2bn
gross value added across the UK
2.5m
sq ft under construction
60+
awards for design, business & social impact
50k+
metric tons of carbon saved
22
buildings rescued from decay
Let’s collab.
We live and breathe social impact.
We believe in creating long-lasting sustainable change, not just in the communities we create, but in the way we give back.
In 2019, we co-founded Embassy, a repurposed tour bus offering homeless people shelter and support. Now, we’re creating Embassy Village, a pioneering approach to tackle homelessness that gives people their own front door and much needed wrap-around support to break the cycle of homelessness and get back on their feet.
To combat the lack of diversity within property, aid social mobility and overcome the industry’s skill shortage, we set up Regeneration Brainery, an award-winning not-for-profit that inspires young people from underrepresented backgrounds to find their dream career.
So far, we’ve worked with over 6,000 young people across the country, a third of which are now working in the industry or studying to join it.
Our projects.
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KAMPUS.
A lush garden neighbourhood in the heart of Manchester, with the best indie food and drinks, canal-side living and secret streets.
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WEIR MILL.
Stockport’s newest leisure and cultural destination with the best indie food and drink, new homes, bags of plant-packed green space under the viaduct and along the River Mersey.
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GOODS YARD.
A vibrant new urban quarter in Stoke-on-Trent with homes, work, and leisure across 4 stunning buildings, including locally-listed vaulted warehouse.
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FARNWORTH GREEN.
A vibrant new community in Farnworth with apartments, family homes and a community hub. A place to live, shop, work and hang out.
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CANNON BREWERY.
A former brewery that’s sat derelict for over 20 years. Home to Sheffield’s Club de Padel and a real game changer for Sheffield’s Neepsend and Kelham.
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NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME
A mix of new homes, shops, cafe-bars, workspaces, a hotel and new green outdoor hangout spots across three sites: Carpark, Rye Park and Astley Place.
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EYEWITNESS.
A Grade II listed former cutlery works restored into design-led homes with three lush, green courtyards. A piece of Sheffield history and the star of Channel 4’s The Big Interior Battle.
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BUNKER.
A former windowless brutalist beast transformed into a beauty. We reused the concrete frame to save a shed load of embodied carbon and create a multi award- winning workspace.
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TEMPEST.
Conserved concrete workspace now home to a community of creative and tech start-ups with a café-bar and rooftop terrace home to our hardest grafters – the Tempest bees.
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DUCIE STREET WAREHOUSE.
A canal-side cotton warehouse restored into apart-hotel, restaurant and bar with vaulted ceilings, steel beams and exposed brick.
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CIVIC.
We’re giving this 70s brutalist building a new lease of life, transforming it into a glorious creative workspace and innovation hub.
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LIGHTBOX.
Beautiful, bright and switched on. These industrial sheds were created for R&D and lab space. Perfect for that lightbulb moment.
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FOUNDRY.
Creative workspace with a green boulevard down the middle. Home to film studios, micro-brewery and tech start-ups.
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HANGAR.
Not your average tin box industrial unit. Hangar is a bold, illuminating space for bright ideas.
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LITTLEWOODS.
One of our most ambitious projects yet. We’re restoring the iconic Littlewoods Building in Liverpool into a world-class film & tv studios.
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NEPTUNE MILL.
Creative workspace with indie cafe-bar, Cotton, in Manchester’s Piccadilly East with exposed brick, beams and columns. And our new HQ.
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JENGA HOTEL.
The Jenga-inspired hotel that won awards before it was even built, with a ground floor bar and restaurant and new public square.
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PHOENIX.
Industrial design-led apartments in Manchester’s Piccadilly East with huge floor-to-ceiling windows, balconies, exposed steel and concrete features.
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CRUSADER.
Timber beams and red brick dreams. A 200-year-old Mancunian mill restored into design-led apartments with a hidden lush garden.
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FERROUS.
Design-led industrial style apartments in Machester’s Piccadilly East, with two café-bars, pocket parks and the Cabin - a space for pop-ups and parties.
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TALBOT MILL.
One of Manchester’s biggest surviving cotton mills will be transformed into apartments packed full of original features and character.
Our partners.
The built environment sector is one of the most collaborative in the UK, with public and private sector partnerships key to meaningful and sustainable regeneration. By working with councils and combined authorities, together we can deliver standout brownfield projects that align with housing and economic growth plans.
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We’re multi award-winning!
We’ve been collecting awards for our craft since the early days. We’ve got so many, we’re gonna need a bigger mantlepiece!
