As a practice POD is underpinned by the strong commercial base described within our Place Making. This allows the opportunity for some humanitarian projects to take place that furthers our social responsibility and research. With public and private stakeholders seeking to create financially sustainable and socially engaging places, the key to successful placemaking lies in part in understanding place on a local level. The social responsibility of POD Architects is in believing that architecture can create better places, that architecture can affect society, and that it can have a role in making a place civilised by making a community more liveable. This is one of the key drivers through POD’s design work. For example at Watford Health Campus driven by health and wellbeing or at the the Trainworks situated in Swindon, reinvigorated an English Heritage grade two star listed former railway shed for wider benefit of the community.