Our input supports wider regeneration objectives, including improved connectivity, public realm enhancement and better integration with surrounding communities. We prioritise active travel and public transport solutions that support long-term change, while ensuring schemes remain deliverable.
We regularly collaborate with architects, urban designers and local authorities to ensure transport and engineering solutions complement and inform the overall vision.
Regeneration sites are often constrained. They may be brownfield, sit within existing communities, or carry historic transport patterns that no longer suit the proposed use. Our advice addresses these directly, looking at how a site’s existing access, severance issues and wider connectivity can be improved, not just maintained, by the new development. Our engineers test what is physically buildable and adoptable early enough to shape the scheme.
Our typical regeneration input includes:
- Brownfield access feasibility and constraints reviews
- Severance and connectivity audits for surrounding communities
- Public realm enhancement strategies
- Active travel network links between the site and existing infrastructure
- Reuse and adaptation of existing highway assets
- Engagement with local authorities and community stakeholders
- Highway design for new and altered streets, through to technical approval
- Traffic Regulation Orders and stopping up where circulation changes are proposed
Regeneration is supported by national policy: the National Planning Policy Framework in England (which prioritises brownfield-first development) and Planning Policy Wales (which sets a similar expectation through its placemaking framework). We work to ensure transport solutions reinforce the regeneration outcome, rather than constraining what brownfield and constrained sites can deliver.
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