Phase One · June 2026 to March 2027
We measure what the spreadsheet misses.
We build evidence about the value of cultural and community spaces that no balance sheet captures.
The problem, in one shape
We can count seats sold and money spent. We cannot count the fourteen year old who found a way in, or the street that started to feel like it belonged to somebody. Those things are real. They just don’t have a column. So we built somewhere to put them.
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Rent
Seats sold
Footfall
What the place is worth to the people in it
Landlords, planners and investors make their decisions in a language of value, cost and risk. We tend to answer in a language of art and community, and the two don’t meet.
What Phase One covers
Deciles 1 to 3
Index of Multiple Deprivation bands the network is weighted towards.
Source: ACE London Investment Fund project outline, 2026
4.4%
Annual outperformance of the London residential market by property beside active creative clusters, over ten years.
Source: Creative Land Trust / Hawkins’Brown / Dataloft, 2021
If you work from commercially owned space, we would like to hear from you.
Steering group places and research participation are both open.