Creating a Successful Campus Masterplan
- Journal
- May 8, 2026

How do you create a campus development plan which combines vision, adaptability and affordability?
Every school is different, so how do you ensure that your plan is tailored to your educational strategy?
Our director James McGillivray is speaking at the Independent Schools' Bursars Association conference next Wednesday 13th May at 11.50
Key points:
- Strategic Alignment - Helping translate a school’s vision into tangible estate decisions.
- Identity and Messaging - How can a school’s physical environment be used to communicate its values and identity?
- Financial Planning - Cost-effective approaches to estate development will be explored and guidance on budgeting for phased or long-term campus improvements.
- Practical Implementation - Case studies or examples of schools that have successfully aligned their estates with their vision
- Don’t Become a Sanctuary for White Elephants - The common pitfalls in estate planning and how they might be avoided.
- Staying Relevant in a fast changing World - What does “adaptable , future-proof environments” mean? How can bursars decide whether their current estate is adaptable to future pedagogical or technological shift.
We look forward to catching up with many of you at the conference. You can find our team on Stand 160