Gort Town Centre
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
The Gort Town Centre Masterplan forms part of County Galway’s Town Centre First programme, responding to long-standing challenges of traffic dominance and parking pressure. The project reimagines Gort’s core through public realm enhancements that create a safer, more accessible and people-focused town centre.
Our work
Momentum provided transport advice to inform the design and delivery of the Gort Town Centre Masterplan. Our input covered parking strategy, servicing, cycling facilities and road layout, helping to balance reduced traffic dominance with continued access for businesses while supporting a safer, more attractive and sustainable town centre.
Client outcomes
Momentum helped the client achieve a deliverable, policy-aligned masterplan by resolving transport challenges early. Our advice reduced risk, avoided abortive redesign, and balanced access, parking and public realm ambitions. This saved time and cost while delivering a safer, more accessible and people-focused town centre.
Central District Alliance BID Public Realm Support
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
Momentum worked with the Central District Alliance Business Improvement District (CDA BID) to realise public realm and movement improvements across the BID area within the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, encompassing Farringdon, Holborn, Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury and St Giles.
Our work
We provided highways design expertise alongside architects BDP on the BID’s Place Plan – a strategic, coordinated approach to supporting streets and public spaces. We identified opportunities and developed designs for the CDA to support public space improvements that help celebrate neighbourhood identity, enrich the natural environment and promote sustainable movement.
Client outcomes
Our work has realised positive changes. This includes improvements at Red Lion Street, providing new trees, improved cycle lanes, and pedestrian links. And the delivery of a pocket park in Clerkenwell as part of the London Festival of Architecture, showcasing innovative solutions to implementing new green spaces and the associated positive impacts on people’s physical and mental health.
The Saville Theatre
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
The project will enable the refurbishment and extension of the Saville Theatre building on Shaftesbury Avenue. The project will see the building return to its original use in the heart of the West End, providing a dedicated theatre with a 220-bedroom hotel extension above, and significant contributions to Camden’s public realm improvement schemes in the area. Our work
Momentum advised on public realm around the building, cycle store design, servicing and deliveries, considering the tight street network busy with pedestrian, cycling and vehicle flows around the Site. We worked closely with the design team and Camden’s transport officers to produce a strong transport case for the development, supported by high quality transport planning documents. Client outcomes
The project received planning consent in April 2025 and benefitted from Momentum’s vast experience of working within Camden, and our understanding of how to support the revival of this site, within the West End’s constrained but highly exciting street environment.
Healthy Streets – Haverstock Hill
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
Momentum led the detailed design of the Haverstock Hill cycle corridor, transforming a trial scheme into a design for a permanent, high-quality active travel route. This had topographical challenges being on a steep hill leading up to Hampstead.
Our work
The project balanced cycling, pedestrian and public transport improvements with motorised vehicle access. Enhancements included stepped cycle tracks, cycle parking and safer junction designs, alongside raised crossings and continuous footways to improve pedestrian safety.
Client outcomes
Public realm upgrades, such as widened pavements, rain gardens and seating, enhanced the street environment. Bus stop bypasses and parking reconfigurations improved efficiency and accessibility. The scheme delivered a safer, greener and more functional corridor for all users.
Rodney Place crossing
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
We carried out a traffic and urban realm study to improve pedestrian accessibility and connectivity between Elephant Park and Victory Community Park in Southwark.
We undertook traffic counts and mapped traffic displacement to assess several options for the link between the parks including one-ways, improving pedestrian priority with a raised crossing point and a road closure. Options were assessed against their impacts on safety, different road users including pedestrians, cyclists, motor vehicles, buses and access to neighbouring developments. We ranked the options in terms of which would best provide a safe and attractive pedestrian link between the parks and support the aims of LB Southwark’s Movement Plan to reduce traffic and improve people’s experience of the street whilst having limited impact on local surrounding roads.
Old Kent Road masterplan
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
We provided input into the transport aspects of masterplanning Design Codes for the area of Sandgate Street, Verney Road and Old Kent Road within the Old Kent Road masterplan for the London Borough of Southwark.
Design codes develop the masterplan in a greater level of detail, setting out the design principles to be followed by developers to gain planning consent.
This involved working with Farrells masterplanners to review the streets and places hierarchy for the area in terms of transport and movement, mapping servicing access and routes, providing multi-modal access maps for walking, cycling, public transport, logistics and vehicular access and advising on designs for typical street sections and walking and cycling routes through green spaces.
Our work helped to plan better connections for pedestrians and cyclists to a proposed linear park along the alignment of Verney Road and improve north-south connections between Verney Road and Old Kent Road. These proposed improvements will help to revitalise Old Kent Road as a high street and allow for intensification of the development, providing homes, workplaces, shops and leisure uses.
70 Gracechurch Street
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
Momentum provided early feasibility, design and planning application support to Stanhope PLC for the refurbishment and expansion of the existing building at Seventy Gracechurch Street, which is a large and mixed-use tower scheme within the City of London’s Eastern Cluster. The scheme was resolved to grant consent in February 2025.
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Client outcomes
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Public Realm
“The successful design of desirable, efficient and functional public spaces can only be achieved when the existing and future movements of different users, pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles, are comprehensively understood.”
Momentum continues to work with our clients and partners to create connected, inclusive and sustainable public realm schemes which respond to the needs of the people who use them.
Public spaces within complex urban environments have to provide for the multiple diverse people who live, work, play, and move through them. Working with local authorities and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), we place the needs of the communities who interact with spaces at the heart of the designs we create.
Our integrated team of planners, designers and analysts work together to create practical, deliverable, engineering solutions for the public realm, embedding technology and innovation.
