Urban Regeneration

What we do

We support public and private sector leaders to plan and deliver complex urban regeneration and centre renewal projects that work in the real world, not just on paper.

Typical engagements include:

• Urban regeneration strategies – precinct, town centre and corridor regeneration strategies with clear implementation pathways

• Implementation and delivery plans – staged, funded and sequenced plans that align planning, property, infrastructure and funding decisions

• Commercial and feasibility advice – land use and development feasibility, delivery model options, and partnering approaches

• Programme design and governance – structures, roles and decision rights to manage multi-party, multi-year regeneration programmes

• Integrated housing, transport and land use planning – aligning housing outcomes with transport and infrastructure investment.

Who we work with

Our primary clients are:

• Local councils and council-controlled organisations responsible for centres, housing, transport and infrastructure

• Central government agencies involved in housing, urban development and regional investment and social infrastructure.

From vision to viability

Communities often seek urban regeneration that delivers transformational change. A key challenge for planning teams is the delivery of aspirational visions within the practical realities of (among other things) land ownership, market appetite, infrastructure sequencing and day-to-day operations.

We help our clients navigate this by identifying the right roles and levers that are available to drive projects forward, and how and when these should be employed.

We are engaged by clients who need confidence that their urban regeneration agenda is both aspirational, as well as commercially realistic, fundable and genuinely able to be delivered.

We support them by providing an integrated, place-wide perspective, underpinned by our extensive exposure to the commercial and delivery environments that major regeneration demands.

Our approach

We combine urban planning, property economics, commercial delivery, and design into a single, integrated service. Our process typically involves the following stages:

Understand the context

Our engagements tend to begin by clarifying the community drivers, funding settings and timing windows in order to shape what is realistically achievable. This also supports us to explore the key economic, social, and environmental drivers of change.

We involve the right people at the right time, including commercial providers, developers, infrastructure partners, community and industry experts.

This also involves working with iwi and mana whenua to build meaningful, enduring partnerships that strengthen both outcomes and delivery.

Define a clear, staged plan

We translate contextual drivers into action by setting out clear, practical steps, defining responsibilities and sequencing activity over time.

By aligning planning, funding, property, infrastructure and governance considerations, we create robust implementation plans that support clear ownership, accountability and confident delivery.

What we deliver

When working with clients, our specific deliverables tend to fall into these categories:

• Diagnostics – Rapid review of your existing plans, evidence base and stakeholder landscape

• Options and delivery strategy – Co-design of feasible regeneration and delivery options with commercial testing

• Implementation roadmaps – Clear pathway with milestones, responsibilities, funding logic and risk management

• Ongoing advice – Support through key decisions, business cases, funding applications and partner negotiations.

Why the Property Group

The Property Group is at the forefront of embracing change, driving progress, and helping to shape our communities of tomorrow. Our Urban Regeneration services benefit from the following values and capabilities that underpin our work:

Interdisciplinary by design

Our urban design service, provided by our Urban Regeneration Team, is fully integrated with our wider Property, GIS, and Planning workstreams, enabling us to deliver a holistic approach to urban regeneration. We provide urban design advice that is both design-led and grounded in market realities.

End-to-end delivery

We understand how successful projects are delivered on the ground – from vision through to staged implementation planning and ongoing advisory support.

Public and private perspectives

We work across councils, central government, iwi and private sector partners, so we know what each party needs to commit and collaborate with a shared vision.

Proven on complex programmes

We don’t just do regeneration – we also deliver large, multi-party property and infrastructure programmes with many moving parts, giving you confidence we can manage complexity.

Spatial planning expertise

Spatial planning is embedded at the core of our urban regeneration services. We use it to set a clear, long-term framework for growth – aligning land use, infrastructure, transport and community outcomes. By linking strategic spatial plans with delivery tools such as master planning, business cases and implementation sequencing, we help clients unlock development potential, manage change and create places that are resilient, well-functioning and ready for investment.

Visit our Spatial Planning Services page

Talk with us

If you’re responsible for an urban regeneration initiative and want to ensure it is commercially viable and deliverable, we recommend a short conversation with Ruth (via the link at the bottom of the page).

In a 15-minute meeting we can have an initial discussion to explore:

• Explore your current plan is strongest, and where it might be exposed

• Identify which levers are realistically available to you

• Discuss next steps to move from concept to an implementable programme.

Examples of our Urban Regeneration Services in action