We’re pleased to announce that Sandy Rompotiyoke has been promoted to Regenerative Advocacy Lead. Sandy will be responsible for social and environmental advocacy inside and outside Periscope, playing a key role in the practice’s work towards equity, diversity and inclusion together with environmental and social responsibility. Sandy continues in her role as Architect in which she is coordinating our work on garden communities in Essex and regeneration projects in London and Sussex.

Today we are delighted to join our collaborators at Queens University in Belfast to officially launch a Vision for the Future of Northern Ireland's Urban Greenspaces.⁠

For the past year we've been working closely with the National Trust, Northern Ireland Environment Link, Useful Projects and Community Places on a co-created document and action plan. With inputs from over 1000 people across the country the 30 year vision seeks connects people, enhance nature and help towns & cities adapt to climate change. ⁠

For more information see the Northern Ireland Environment Link website and our project page here.

Periscope, together with Haworth Tompkins, Kjellander Sjöberg, Grounded Practice, ARUP and Exploration Architecture have won a competition to masterplan a new community near Colchester, Essex.

The project, for Latimer will be a model for 21st century sustainable living and regenerative approaches to place. We're looking forward to working with stakeholders and communities in this unique and storied landscape.

Image Credit: Haworth Tompkins

Find out more in this link.

Periscope has joined London's new A+U Framework. The Mayor, Sadiq Khan has appointed a panel of innovative and diverse built environment specialists to a new Architecture + Urbanism (A+U) Framework, this panel will support his mission to build a better London for everyone.

Our team is proud to have been appointed⁠ to the A+U; its an amazing cohort, we're looking forward to the coming years and continuing to work for the people of London and the environment in which we live.⁠

Find out more at this link.

Today a planning application was submitted for The Phoenix, a new, exponentially sustainable neighbourhood on the site of John Every's Ironworks in Lewes, East Sussex.

Periscope's role is the Masterplan Design Lead, coordinating the Integrated Design Team of Human Nature and Arup. We are also designing the public realm & landscape, the adaptive reuse of two heritage structures and the Co-Mobility Hub. Check back soon for further updates.⁠

Find out more by reading the Design & Access Statement, link here.

Image by Periscope for Human Nature.⁠