Regenerative. Collaborative. Caring.
Our team of urban planners, landscape architects, urban designers and engagement specialists are inspired by our shared values and business purpose.
We are regenerative
- Regenerative practice goes beyond balancing sustainability goals to attain positive change — restoring environments, empowering communities and targeting fairer economic outcomes.
- We undertake our work with a regenerative approach and seek to work with clients on planning and design projects that regenerate towns, cities and communities across Australia.
We are collaborative
- Our team loves to work with each other, with our clients and colleagues, and with the communities that benefit from our leadership and expertise.
- We are collaborative and have firmly established effective methods that ensure we will remain leaders in this area and achieve the best possible project outcomes.
We care about people and places
- We continue to care deeply about the places, environments and communities in which we work.
- This care is underpinned for the care and respect we have for our colleagues. We are committed to building a rewarding and happy team culture, for the benefit of all existing and future team members.
A history of innovation and excellence
The foundations of our business date back to the early 1990s when respected urban designer Peter Jensen established Jensen Planning + Design.
In 1994, when Peter coined the name ‘Planning + Design’, the combination of planning and urban design practice was innovative and unique. For two decades, Peter positioned the business as a leading planning and design practice based in Adelaide, carefully building a respected and trusted brand by forging positive relationships with clients and stakeholders and delivering exceptional outcomes.
Thirty years on, those foundations have served the business well.
In 2015, Michael McKeown took ownership of Jensen Planning + Design. With a reputation for excellence and a desire to build on the past and further enhance our capability, the business was rebranded as Jensen PLUS in early 2017.
The rebrand signified that 'Team Jensen' had become much more than a planning and urban design consultancy and, supported by a diverse and talented team, Jensen PLUS was ideally positioned to deliver even more benefits to clients and communities across Australia.
The name Jensen PLUS not only acknowledges our roots in planning (P) and urban design (U), but our strong expertise and success in landscape architecture (L), social planning, and stakeholder and community engagement (S).
Michael continues to lead the evolution of Jensen PLUS and further position the business as an innovative and community-focussed urban design and planning consultancy.
In recent years, the business has expanded its focus into regional towns and cities across Australia, taking our well-regarded engagement techniques, master planning skills and urban design approach to numerous places that we have helped shape into more connected and sustainable communities.
We continue to evolve and make positive impacts
Our multi-disciplinary team has now grown to include South Australia’s most experienced and brightest thinkers and do-ers.
Many of us have national and international work experience, bringing a diversity of knowledge to our projects and our clients. We are people who prioritise community and culture, local and global environments, fairness and equity, and good design in the projects we lead and deliver, and also in our own lives.
Not only has our team grown and evolved but so has our approach to our work and the values that inform it.
Our professional practice has long been underpinned by a clear commitment to sustainable outcomes, with our carbon-neutral certification being one example. But it is increasingly apparent to us that sustainable planning policies and design elements aren't enough to make progress and effect change.
This is why we are increasingly adopting a ‘regenerative’ approach to our planning and design projects, and to our business.
Regenerative thinking emphasises the need for positive and restorative change. Not just offsetting environmental impacts, but increasing green outcomes on site. Not just contributing to broad-scale economic growth, but to local economic development in the form of jobs and business opportunities as well.
And all this informed by thoughtful engagement and collaboration, grounded in place and informed by local knowledge and thinking.
Our work
Discover our featured projects or browse our library of projects here.
