South Coast renewal: creating places where people and businesses thrive
Arup provides strategic support to regional decision makers to help them strengthen local economies, increase affordable housing, and enhance transport and energy infrastructure.
The South Coast’s cities and coastal towns share a complex mix of economic and social challenges. Drawing on our experience of supporting coastal places, Arup works with public and private sector leaders to navigate these pressures and drive sustainable regeneration and renewal.
We believe the whole region can achieve:
- Innovation and sustainability: coastal cities, more than other towns, feel the impact and burden of climatic changes and unpredictable weather patterns. Southampton has a Green City Charter and 2030 net zero ambitions and economic clusters are emerging around these ambitions.
- Inclusive economic growth: shaping and enabling development that benefits local communities as well as investors and commercial interests.
- Better connected communities: by strengthening transport, infrastructure, and public realm design we can improve quality of life for everyone.
- Affordable housing at scale: revitalising and retrofitting existing housing stock, unlocking new affordable residential developments.
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To build a better future for all communities across the South Coast, talk to us today.
How we can help
As an organisation we offer a wealth of economic, planning, governance and development insights, backed by deep technical expertise relevant to implementation.
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We identify local opportunities for future growth
We help leaders to understand how schemes can address community needs, economic change, and emerging climate risks.
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We understand the policy and regulatory landscape
Helping public sector organisations to grasp how national and regional policy and frameworks will influence a project’s success.
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We convene local and national stakeholders to develop a local story
We use our existing local knowledge and partnerships to ensure that the strategic narrative closely aligns with cross-governmental priorities.
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We provide investment and funding insight
Helping public bodies unlock vital capital for urban regeneration, asset redevelopment and the establishment of new industrial or manufacturing hubs.
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We embed sustainability in every scheme or programme
Our work always balances efficacy, affordability, with long-term environmental and social benefits.
Projects
Learn more about our projects across the South Coast
University of Southampton Business School
Arup’s multidisciplinary team reconfigured the internal layout and building systems of the former Lloyd’s Register Global Technology Centre to create a variety of flexible spaces for the University of Southampton's Business School.
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Maggie's cancer centre Southampton
Arup designed Maggie’s Centre at University Hospital Southampton to be a welcoming and inclusive place. With sustainability and patient experience at its heart, the centre offers open and flexible spaces that meet a variety of patient needs.
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