Celebrating our 25th year in 2023 has come at the end of eighteen months of change and reflection for the practice. It has been an ideal opportunity to look back on our partners, and the work we have delivered together, and then to look forward to our role in the next 25 and beyond.  

Planit has announced a series of promotions across several studios, which will help expand and improve its offer in the coming years.

In this month’s edition we speak to the man known within Planit simply as ‘Uncle Rob’. From discovering antiquities in Libya to helping Wirral Council prepare the recent World Heritage application for Birkenhead Park, Rob Burns is a true polymath. 

Proposed new designs for the covered market in Ashton-under-Lyne have been submitted for planning approval. Planit has been engaging with local residents, market traders and stakeholders for more than a year through a number of engagement workshops and events.

In this month’s edition of ‘The Start of Something…’ we speak to our dear friend and collaborator, the artist Stephen Broadbent.

There is no ‘one-size fits all’ model of Employee-Ownership, and this is equally true of the Governance provisions a practice puts in place as it transitions.

There is probably not an exact day as to when ‘this’ all started, but today we are marking the 25th birthday of Planit. Over the years we’ve been called a few variations on the theme — Planit EDC and latterly Planit IE. Soon, we will be just Planit.

Much has changed within Planit since becoming an accredited B Corp in 2020, particularly after becoming a majority Employee-Owned Business towards the end of last year.

Our team of urban designers have been contributing to Sheffield’s City Strategy and Local Plan since 2020, supporting Sheffield City Council in their ambitions for future regeneration.

The Great Northern Warehouse scheme in Manchester has recently been granted planning approval, and we’re eager to see the proposed vision now become a reality, having been involved in the project from the first application in 2017.

Having been supporters of PlacED for many years, we are committed to helping shape the PlaceED Academy programme and support the next generation of our industry professionals. Through the PlacED Academy we have the ability to inspire young people and open the door to wider career prospects and opportunities.

Our Urban Designers have taken a crucial role in developing recently unveiled plans for the new Leeds Innovation Arc that will have a lasting legacy on the city.

In a sector responsible for 35–40% of total global carbon emissions, the scale of the challenge within the property industry is significant, as is the potential to realise transformatory benefit.

Pete Swift and Ed Lister, Co-Founders of Planit-IE, announce an exciting development for the company and its future.

From the 1st July, Georgina Baines and Kevin Redhead became Directors of Planit-IE.

A full year at Planit has flown by, in which it has been a year of growing, learning and facing new challenges in a real-world practice environment.

This won’t be the first time I’ve done a multi-day bike ride. The challenge is, that it will only really be the second, and the first one was back in 1993.

This is our way, as a Certified B Corp, of sharing with you the progress we are making to become a better business — for people and planet, through deploying our work in a more purposeful, society-focussed way.

Wanting to complement experiences offered to students at university with insights into the industry, we threw open our studios, and invited them in.

As a student, the wealth of potential career opportunities may seem overwhelming, and it can be difficult to understand what a job entails on a day-to-day basis.

One team working across five UK studios. Collaboration, project work, skill sharing and much more happens on a daily basis, with a Team Newsletter imparting important announcements and news to all on a weekly basis.

Standish Gatehouse is the fourth Planit-IE studio. Everything about it is different.

Everton Football Club has held a project commencement ceremony at Bramley-Moore Dock to mark the breaking of ground in the construction of a new £500m stadium.

Our time at Planit-IE has provided us with a vast amount of knowledge and insight into a professional environment during a very unique time period.

We are delighted to announce our involvement in the regeneration of Altrincham’s Stamford Quarter.

We are delighted to be supporting work by the charity Embassy, to help address homelessness in central Manchester. Embassy has adopted a pioneering approach to design a self-contained village.

There are a host of opportunities for our in-house Graphic Design team to complement and enhance our work as Landscape and Urban Designers, as well as create bespoke content, websites and collateral for our clients.

Planit-IE has joined forces with an award-winning collective of designers, makers and urbanists, forming a new studio model in a concerted effort to bring about and participate in authentic change across our towns and cities.