Fourth Street

Name

Fourth Street

Legal name

Fourth Street

Website

https://fourth-street.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Place-making and Regeneration Consultancy

NAICS

Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (23622)

SIC

Non-Operating Establishments (9995)

akta.pro primary industry

Urban Renewal, Brownfield Redevelopment & Land Reuse (BPAIANAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Retail & Mixed-Use Commercial Construction (IMAFACAB)

Keywords

• Place-making consultancy
• Heritage regeneration advisory
• Destination development consulting
• Cultural sector strategy
• Property development advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Consultancy and Advisory Services: Professional consulting fees for place-making, regeneration, heritage restoration, and destination development projects. Revenue is generated through project-based engagements with public and private sector clients, including feasibility studies, market research, business planning, vision and concept development, and capital project delivery services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Fourth Street is a place-making and regeneration consultancy that advises public and private sector clients on contemporary arts and culture, built and natural heritage, and place-led property development projects. The firm delivers market research, visioning and concept development, feasibility studies, business planning, financial modelling, and capital project management and delivery. Its typical engagements include competitive-tender funding bids (e.g., Levelling Up Fund) and direct commissions from developers, local authorities, and cultural institutions.

Product overview

Fourth Street is a place-making and regeneration consultancy that operates across three core service areas: Contemporary Arts & Culture, Built & Natural Heritage, and Place-led Property Development. The company offers a comprehensive suite of advisory services including market research and analysis, vision and concept development, business planning, financial modelling, strategic advisory, and capital project delivery and management. Their approach combines early-stage feasibility and visioning work with the ability to follow through into project execution through their extended service offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Contemporary Arts & Culture Consultancy Advisory services for cultural and creative-sector clients, including museums, theatres, galleries, and performing arts venues, covering destination strategy, business development, funding applications, and visitor-experience design.
• Built & Natural Heritage Consultancy Heritage-focused advisory services for historic buildings, visitor attractions, and heritage sites, including restoration planning, heritage interpretation, and heritage asset management for public and private sector clients.
• Place-led Property Development Consultancy Strategic advisory for mixed-use developments, residential communities, and commercial property projects, focusing on placemaking, market analysis, and development feasibility for housebuilders and master-developers.
• Capital Project Management and Delivery Service Project delivery and management service extending Fourth Street's consultancy offering into capital project execution, design-team leadership, and construction oversight for heritage and destination projects.
• Visioning, Analysis and Feasibility Work Early-stage consultancy services including market research and analysis, vision and concept development, and feasibility studies for heritage destinations and cultural projects.
• Financial Modelling and Appraisal Financial analysis services including detailed financial appraisals, development strategy assessment, and stress-testing of development models for property and destination projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully secured £60m of Levelling Up Fund Round 1 funding for clients
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers19 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and core.

• Loop SystemssupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerProfessional team member for the Health Hydro restoration project in Swindon, providing specialized services as part of the design team led by Fourth Street.
• Donald Insall AssociatessupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerHistoric building conservation architects engaged as part of the professional team for the Health Hydro restoration project in Swindon.
• Doug King ConsultingsupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBuilding physics and environmental engineering consultancy providing specialist expertise for heritage restoration projects.
• The Morton PartnershipsupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBuilding surveying and heritage consultancy engaged for the Health Hydro restoration project.
• Ian Walker AssociatessupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngineering consultancy providing specialist services as part of the Health Hydro design team.
• SLCsupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngineering consultancy engaged for the Health Hydro and Mechanics Institute restoration project.
• Brunel UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrunel University partnered with U+I and Fourth Street for the Central Research Laboratory at the Old Vinyl Factory, which was inspired by EMI's historic R&D facility. The university provided academic partnership for the makerspace and hardware accelerator concept.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• JLL UK: Global real estate advisor with a planning and development consultancy practice operating in UK regeneration, mixed-use, and cultural destination briefs, comparable in client base but not niche specialism.
• Savills: International real estate advisor with planning, heritage, and placemaking capability serving local authorities, developers, and cultural institutions — a broader but overlapping competitor in UK regeneration work.
• Arup: Global multidisciplinary engineering, design and planning firm with established UK regeneration, heritage, and city-making practices, often competing for the same public-sector mandates but at larger scale.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure and place-making consultancy operating in UK planning, regeneration, and cultural/heritage advisory, frequently competing for council and developer-led urban regeneration briefs.
• CBRE UK: Global real estate services firm with a UK advisory, planning, and heritage consultancy arm competing for many of the same local authority and developer-led regeneration mandates.
• Knight Frank: Global real estate consultancy with planning, development, and heritage teams that work alongside property developers and public bodies on the kind of mixed-use and destination projects Fourth Street advises on.

Direct peers

• Turley: UK planning, design and regeneration consultancy advising public and private sector clients on place-making, development, and heritage — the closest like-for-like competitor to Fourth Street across its three service lines.
• Lichfields: UK planning, development and economics consultancy serving local authorities, developers, and cultural/heritage clients on regeneration and place-making briefs, directly comparable in client mix and project types.
• Purcell: Heritage architecture and consultancy firm working on restoration, reuse, and destination projects for historic buildings and cultural institutions, overlapping significantly with Fourth Street's Built & Natural Heritage practice.

Others

• Placefirst: UK regeneration company founded by the same founders as Fourth Street's parent (Place Capital Group), focused on converting empty homes into neighbourhoods; closely related operationally but housing-delivery rather than advisory, hence not a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fourth-street
• Xx.com/fourthstreetuk

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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