“Streets Reimagined have gone above and beyond what would normally be expected in community engagement using a variety of consultation methods. This has prompted the City Council to see Southmead as a pilot and exemplar project in empowering communities”

Judging Panel Report South West RTPI Planning Excellence

Southmead Development Trust are a community-based organisation delivering regeneration for their community. The Trust commissioned Streets Reimagined as part of a wider team to undertake a community-led master plan process to shape the future development of the neighbourhood centre.

One of the largest projects of its kind in the country, the proposals will see the local shopping precinct reimagined as an expanded high street with an enhanced streetscape, new community spaces and attractive, more usable open spaces, as well as up to 350 new homes.  

Planning permission was granted in May 2020 with an unanimous decision at committee.

The project was ‘Highly Commended’ at RTPI South West Planning Excellence Awards and was recently shortlisted in the national Planning Awards 2020 in the community-led placemaking category.

We have recently been recommissioned by the Community Trust (Summer 2024) to undertake further work with the local community to help refine the detailed design for the public realm and also the proposed residential courtyard spaces.