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  • Harbour Place Shaping Strategy

    A comprehensive 20-year strategy for Bristol’s harbour – 27 hectares of waterspace and associated places and landscapes.



  • Basildon Town Centre Safety Plan

    Enhancing safety and perceptions of safety in Basildon New Town.



  • North Paddington Canalside

    Strategic work to improve accessibility and environmental sustainability in and round the Regent’s Canal in Paddington, informed by extensive public engagement work.



  • Bromley Town Centre

    Urban design advice for the London Borough of Bromley to inform new planning guidance.


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  • Housing Quality in Hounslow: a Vision

    A collective vision for housing in a London borough


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  • Westway Community Street

    A community-led strategy for enhancing public spaces below the Westway elevated carriageway in North Kensington.


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  • Culture and Creativity in Walthamstow

    Exploring how culture and creativity are understood, practiced and experienced in Walthamstow and a strategy for how they can be better supported.



  • Royal Docks Delivery Plan

    Picturing the future Royal Docks neighbourhoods and building upon our placemaking work for London’s only Enterprise Zone.


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  • Royal Docks Placemaking Strategy

    Placemaking and water activation for London’s only Enterprise Zone.



  • Papworth Everard Village Design Guide

    Place-specific design guidance developed in collaboration with village residents and using an innovative ‘fanzine’ approach.



  • Hof van Kabbeek, Tienen

    A masterplan made with with fala atelier for the Flemish city of Tienen, transforming an urban, vacant hospital site into a new part of the city through adaptive reuse, new housing, and a major new urban park.


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  • Welsh Harp Joint Vision

    Developing a collective vision for the Welsh Harp reservoir and surrounding public landscapes.


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  • Expanding London’s Public Realm

    A design guide to enhance the public value and design quality of London’s expanded public realm.


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  • Hemel Garden Communities Spatial Vision

    A spatial vision to guide the future development of Hemel Garden Communities, working with Dacorum Borough Council, St Albans City and District Council, Hertfordshire County Council, Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and The Crown Estate.



  • Safeguarding Culture

    Mapping cultural deprivation and Heritage at Risk to build a strategy for delivering culture in Greater London.


  • DK-CM Rider Gardens proposal to the Greater London Authority

    Rider Gardens

    A supportive infrastructure for London’s delivery rider community which creates public realm benefits for all on the Inner Ring.


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  • Caldecote Village Design Guide

    Place-specific design guidance developed in collaboration with village residents using an innovative ‘fanzine’ approach.



  • Harrow Arts Centre Masterplan

    A masterplan for the expansion and consolidation of Harrow Arts Centre.


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  • Canal Placemaking Study

    A vision for the Grand Union Canal at Old Oak and Park Royal, capturing its existing qualities and setting out strategies for its improvement and preservation.


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  • Orpington Town Centre

    Urban design advice for the London Borough of Bromley to inform new planning guidance.



  • East Tilbury Community Hub

    Working with the local community to develop options for a new Community Hub in this unique Essex village.



  • Community Green Grid

    A speculative project linking community ambition, and the unifying force of growing, to wider strategic change.


  • Manor Parade is a row of 21 shops dating from the 1920s, restored to designs by DK-CM as part of Southall Great Streets Phase 2.

    Southall Great Streets

    Delivering strategic improvements to public spaces and buildings throughout Southall.


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  • Erith Meanwhile

    A strategy proposing impactful, socially-produced meanwhile use projects for Erith.


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  • Roding-Made

    Action plan exploring how the industrial areas of Barking & Dagenham can be used to enrich the borough’s creative enterprises.


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  • DK-CM worked with Thurrock Council and Emily Greeves Architects to develop new residential design guidance to form part of the council's Local Plan.

    Thurrock Residential SPD

    A collaboration with Thurrock Council and Emily Greeves Architects to develop new residential design guidance forming part of the council’s Local Plan.


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  • DK-CM Community Fulfilment Levy, proposal for the Greater London Authority, 2017

    Community Fulfilment Levy

    Gaining public value from the new spaces of distribution.


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  • Outer London Identity, a speculative proposal by DK-CM put forward to the Greater London Authority in 2017.

    Outer London Identity

    A crowdsourced video campaign getting to the heart of Outer London – #OLidentity


  • DK-CM_Artists Arcadia_Proposal to the Greater London Authority

    Artists Arcadia, Basildon

    Artists’ Arcadia is a strategy that places creative practice at the heart of the Thames Gateway’s plotland communities.


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  • Digital Highstreet by DK-CM

    Our Local High Street Online

     A proposal for an open, democratic, digital platform to support local businesses with online retail 



  • Pudding Mill SPG

    A public realm strategy for Pudding Mill, one of the new neighbourhoods proposed around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.


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  • The May Fair

    A speculative proposal for the public realm of Mayfair in collaboration with Pablo Bronstein.


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