The demand for development of our town and cities and pressure on land requires more efficient use of the land that is available. To solve the dilemma of limited land and increasingly protected building stock, our clients need masterplans that can successfully integrate a coherent approach to the city, the institution and the individual site.

We have developed multiple masterplans in the Lea Valley, including achieving outline planning permission for Pudding Mill Lane. We also work with our clients to understand how these new neighbourhoods evolve over time, to support them being attractive places from day one, including our work at Meridian Water for Enfield Council.

“The Meanwhile Masterplan is dynamic and flexible; it is the creative connection between these active uses on the ground and the emerging long-term vision and objectives of the Meridian Water Masterplan. In this way, it is adding value to the Masterplan by experimenting with early delivery of Masterplan concepts, and by exploring ideas, themes and project interventions that will help to fundamentally drive change and deliver socio-economic regeneration.”

“The team’s response to a multi-headed client with an evolving brief was exceptional. This was a truly collaborative process that needed expert project management, fast responses to changing circumstances, excellent knowledge of exemplar intensification and the ability to create and communicate a clear long-term vision. Deliverability was key and 5th’s through research into industrial processes gave us real confidence in the outcome. The process was as important as the outcome and the 5th Studio team were incredibly responsive and a pleasure to work with.”

We are skilled at creating estate masterplans, supporting clients to manage their assests, increasing their attractiveness, energy efficiently, and co-ordinated growth and adaptation to meet 21st Century demands.

We are spatially entrepreneurial – some of our most creative work has involved identifying and proposing projects, establishing what could happen in a place.

We like to work with clients from the very beginning, helping to establish a brief and providing the project narrative, information for financial appraisals and other pragmatic material.

We have helped multiple Colleges, landowners, and public sector authorities better understand their properties and to create comphrehensive investment strategies. This has included over a decade working with Trinity College, and the development of a social masterplan and delivery of its first phase for Oriel College.

“The Royal Docks is one of the largest regeneration projects in London and the work that 5th Studio undertook was crucial to helping us to plan our interventions in public realm and infrastructure, to bring a framework to bear on an area that had been developed in an ad hoc way, and helped to provide an overarching strategy for a large area. The 5th Studio team showed an ability to comprehend a large area, to analyse the way in which places are used and to come up with a range of interventions to resolve the issues.”

We are spatially entrepreneurial – some of our most creative work has involved identifying and proposing projects, establishing what could happen in a place.

We regularly work at the large scale of major growth areas, creating place making strategies and design frameworks which steer incremental and long-term change towards a greater public benefit.

We have worked extensively in the Lower Lea Valley – on the Lea River Park, the Royal Docks and around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

“While the Olympic Park and its associated paraphernalia of furniture and lighting did its best to lay a freshly designed carpet over an area of shagginess, 5th Studio’s work feels more like the kind of hard-working infrastructure that might have always been here.”