The Crown Estate and Grosvenor.

Motionspot was engaged to scope the regulatory landscape and define and develop a set of inclusive design principles to be applied across over 500 sites in London, including multiple heritage buildings.

Motionspot supported with:

Research and gap analysis of inclusive design policies, standards, and best practice

• Potential project impact and business case.

Baseline of portfolio to understand the level of inclusivity for commercial buildings and public realm.

• Site visits across The Crown Estate and Grosvenor’s portfolios across office, retail, public realm, food and beverage.
• Engagement workshops with over 50 people with lived experience to share challenges faced in the built environment.
• An industry roundtable with over 20 industry experts.

Creation of an open source report and toolkit (known as the Inclusive Design Brief) for all businesses to implement genuine and practical change.

• Including a series of prompts to ask at all stages of a new build, refurbishment, or retrofit project.
• Explore the full report and toolkit here.

A new inclusive design standard bespoke to The Crown Estate and Grosvenor’s portfolios.

• Creation of tailored technical requirements to integrate best practice inclusive design standards within The Crown Estate and Grosvenor’s new developments and major refurbishment projects so that they are future proofed and attractive to potential occupiers.
• Methodology to identify short- and long-term interventions

Industry launch event.

• Featuring a panel of experts and people with lived experience and keynote from Ade Adepitan.
• Over 100 industry stakeholders in attendance.

As part of this initiative, The Crown Estate and Grosvenor committed to five inclusive design actions including:

• Listening to and involving those with lived experience.
• Measuring and understanding the level of accessibility of our buildings and spaces to inform key interventions.
• Communicating better information on the accessibility of our buildings.
• Going beyond building regulations to create a higher inclusive design standard.
• Collaborating to ensure inclusive design is considered for new developments and existing buildings.

In addition to the open source Inclusive Design Brief and tools, an Accessible and Inclusive Places Industry Group has been established, a collaborative effort to champion accessibility across the sector.