21 May Preparing a town centre vision for Barking in 2030
In 2019, Arup was commissioned to convene ‘The Future of Barking Town Centre Panel’, which was created to develop a vision for the future of the town centre in 2030. Whilst...
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Place talking points
Our founder, Diane Cunningham, discusses issues affecting high streets, markets, town centres and small businesses. We love exploring new places and revisiting old ones to see the changes.
Here, you can find interviews with clients and colleagues, events and research, alongside observations from what we have learnt on projects and when out and about.
07 May Preparing businesses for post lockdown trading
Last week we posted a blog on Business Engagement, where we discussed the importance of strengthening relationships between councils & BID teams, with high street and town centre shops....
24 Apr Learning from High Street business engagement
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in Business Engagement, Marketing & Comms, Retail & Markets, Town Centres & High Streets
Over the past 12 months, we’ve been managing several stakeholder engagement projects. Whilst talking to business owners, BID members, workers, market traders and high street users in very different places,...
06 Mar Community at its best at Ruddington Village Market
Last month we visited Ruddington, a large village five miles from Nottingham with a host of indie shops, local history museums and a country park. In 2019, the village launched...
30 Jan Looking back and predictions for the future from BDO’s annual retail trading seminar
This week I attended BDO’s annual retail trading seminar for the first time. Presented by retail partner, Sophie Michael and Richard Lim of Retail Economics, the seminar took an in-depth...
20 Dec The Assembly Line annual round up
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in Business Engagement, Marketing & Comms, Retail & Markets, Town Centres & High Streets
2019 has been a busy year at the Assembly Line. We have worked on a number of interesting and diverse projects and we are now planning ahead for 2020.We have...