Each of our major developments makes a positive contribution to the public realm.

Enhancing the public realm helps plans adapt and remain desirable.

Brindleyplace is set around three landscaped public squares, with a network of pedestrian routes linking into the surrounding city. We manage the public realm to the highest standards. Brindleyplace is safe, clean and well-maintained; easy to understand and navigate; interesting and enjoyable. Recorded crime is virtually zero. The whole estate is 'Secured by Design'.

In Manchester, One Piccadilly Gardens has helped rejuvenate the largest green space within the city centre. Argent committed to completing the building speculatively and the City Council has spent £15 million on new fountains, lawns, trees, paving and pavilions, seating areas and public art. Each year 18 million people walk through the refurbished public space and we are working in partnership with the City Council to deliver the very best cleaning, management, maintenance, public events and information.

Our nearby Piccadilly Place will include two new public spaces, a dramatic pedestrian bridge link to Manchester Piccadilly Station and the Poem for Manchester, etched into a waterwall.

At King's Cross, the legacy of past industrial and transport development is fragmented and disconnected public realm. Addressing this feeling of exclusion is our top priority. Our development will promote pedestrian movement, establish new connections and integrate with the surrounding city. 10 new spaces, 20 new streets, three new bridges across the Regent's Canal and more than 400 trees represent a real step change in the quality of the public realm at King's Cross with high quality and genuinely public new streets and open spaces.