Overall Skills and Experience
"After working with arc 4 to carry out a successful Strategic Housing Market Assessment in 2010, including a borough-wide household survey, we were very keen to carry on using their expertise and take forward the results of the research in developing a new housing strategy.
Arc 4 worked with us and our extended housing and other partners to develop the basis of a strategy that’s based soundly on the evidence produced by the SHMA, but which is designed to be adaptable in order to enable us to respond strategically to changes in national policy. Arc 4’s involvement has been invaluable, in that it’s meant that from the start of our work in assessing our markets to our current work in putting together our housing strategy, we’ve had their expertise and advice. We’re now in a position where we can confidently discuss the housing needs and demands of our borough and develop policy in response to the findings of the research. Arc4’s professional and friendly approach means that they’ve been a pleasure to work with throughout both projects, making the whole process go that much more smoothly, and we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them. "
Kate Skillikorn, Housing Research and Policy Officer, Copeland BC
The great benefit in using arc4 is that we have a great depth of knowledge in each of the areas listed below. And then we can combine any or all of these skills into packages to deliver comprehensive solutions that cement change.
The skills of the company lie in developing:
Regeneration objectives
Identifying the critical success factors / key projects that meet the needs of clients and their partners.
Imaginative consultation and engagement programmes
We specialise in providing you with a strong evidence base for your work, as well as satisfied customers. Our innovative ideas on consultation, aspitations research and engagement can both underpin your work and help deliver change.
Effective research
Providing clients with information they require to satisfy Government requirements and to understand their communities better.
Successful partnerships
Especially cross-sector and cross boundary partnerships to deliver sustainable communities, areas and sub regions.
Strategies
Setting out the partnerships, structures and plans to be put in place to ensure that regeneration objectives are met.
Implementation packages
Defining projects, work packages, direct and complementary resource allocations, cash flow, timescales and targets.
Products, networks and funding packages
All the necessary pathways for delivery.
Delivery structures
Delivering cross cutting programmes from retrofitting and renewal to home ownership pathways.
Design and communication
Multimedia and accessible methods that ensure partners and stakeholders are engaged and enthused.