Reimagine Place

now part of the next phase family

Reimagine Place is a consultancy focused on place strategies, public realm activations, and community engagement — now proudly part of the Next Phase family.

Co-founded by Hayden and Emma, Reimagine Place and Next Phase were built on the same belief: that places thrive when commercial thinking is matched with meaningful engagement and community purpose. By bringing the two together, we’re combining deep strategic expertise with creative, on-the-ground delivery.

Reimagine Place brings:

  • Expertise in temporary and long-term place activation

  • Proven methods for stakeholder and community engagement and co-design

  • Place-based strategies rooted in identity, culture, and civic pride

  • Tactical urbanism, programming, and public space consultancy

By integrating Reimagine Place into the Next Phase team, we deepen our ability to connect people with place. Whether shaping high streets and town centres, designing event-led activations, or developing long-term town strategies, our work champions places that are lived in, loved, and built to last.

This integration expands our capacity while keeping our shared values at the core: delivering work that balances commercial impact with community benefit.

How we can help

  • When empty shops start appearing on your high street and footfall drops, local authorities and BIDs often don’t know where to start to reverse the decline. We can help by providing you with a comprehensive evidence base from which you can formulate a plan with targeted interventions to breathe confidence back into ailing town centres and provide businesses with the support they need.

  • Plans made with the communities that they affect are most likely to be successful, lead to innovation and creativity, and result in less controversy. We can help by providing you with a bespoke engagement package that reaches wide-ranging audiences including marginalised groups and young people. Getting under the skin of communities and winning hearts and minds is our speciality using a number of face-to-face and digital activities.

  • Data is key to understanding your town - it’s heritage, current challenges and future ambitions. We can gather, analyse and present your data in a simple, easy-to-understand way that will inform your strategy and identify objectives and outcomes for your plan.

  • In challenging times, the most successful towns are those that have a clear vision and an understanding of what they want to be. Towns with a plan, especially those created by multiple partners and community members, are the most successful. We specialise in working with local authorities, town teams and communities to understand their town and support them in creating a workable vision and plan that galvanises everyone under a shared ambition. We believe in realistic and deliverable short, medium and long-term outcomes and interventions and support with funding streams and applications.Item description

  • Local authorities are increasingly stretched, so working together with private and third-sector organisations is becoming increasingly important. With political thinking and policy leaning towards community-led regeneration and renewal, we can support you in establishing Community Interest Companies and the like, from structure, governance, and purpose to the submission of your application and plan of activities for the future. We can then help you apply for funding from the many different pots available.