Plumstead High Street

We were commissioned to lead the community engagement for a series of improvements along Plumstead High Street, including the co-design of artwork for a Network Rail bridge that forms part of a new public route to the high street. To gather a broad range of input, we used multiple engagement methods — from stakeholder workshops and pop-ups on the high street to tagging onto existing events, running secondary school workshops, and hosting public exhibitions at the local library and Plumstead Make Merry. We tailored our approach to suit specific locations. For example, we organised a resident planting and transformation day for a green space outside a housing estate on the high street, and held photography workshops with a local secondary school to capture portraits of independent shopkeepers — helping to prompt trader involvement in the engagement programme. The bridge artwork was co-designed with local A-level students and drew inspiration from a disused power station near the high street.