Former LLDC colleagues launch placemaking consultancy
Two outgoing London Legacy Development Corporation employees are launching a placemaking consultancy.
Beyond the Red Line will initially focus predominantly on gender-informed planning, led by Marina Milosev, co-author of the LLDC’s handbook on gender-informed planning Creating Places that Work for Women and Girls.
She will be joined next year by Anne Ogundiya, whose role as the corporation’s head of planning and transformation is due to come to an end in March.
Two outgoing London Legacy Development Corporation employees are launching a placemaking consultancy.
Beyond the Red Line will initially focus predominantly on gender-informed planning, led by Marina Milosev, co-author of the LLDC’s handbook on gender-informed planning Creating Places that Work for Women and Girls.
She will be joined next year by Anne Ogundiya, whose role as the corporation’s head of planning and transformation is due to come to an end in March.
Milosev left LLDC last week, when it formally handed back its planning powers to the four London boroughs with boundaries within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. She and Ogundiya aim to work with developers, local authorities and designers to unlock development sites and create sustainable, vibrant, equitable and desirable places and communities.
The first phase of Beyond the Red Line will focus strongly on gender-informed planning. Milosev, an urban planner and leading specialist in gender-informed planning will offer expertise in integrating the needs of women and girls into urban design and planning.
On gender mainstreaming, she will be collaborating with specialists in research, engagement, public realm and lighting, including Jennie Savage, Elettra Bordonaro, Susannah Walker, the founder of Make Space for Girls, Julia King and Karen Whybro.
Milosev, who was planning policy team lead at LLDC, said: “With increasing social disparities and escalating environmental challenges, investors and government are putting greater pressure on developers to deliver sustainable, resilient developments that incorporate the needs of diverse communities. Expanding the scope of inclusive design to fully consider intersectional characteristics, including gender, has never been more critical.”
She added: “Public and private sectors alike are recognising the value of embedding social equity into planning and design – not only to achieve compliance but also to create developments that withstand the test of time and deliver needed socio-economic benefits.”
