Future Development Plans – Garden Communities & New Towns; Sponsored by DAC Beachcroft

As part of our regular visits to the realm of the Garden Communities and New Towns development scene, Built Environment Networking bring you this mid-year update featuring high value intelligence on a number of development initiatives across the UK.

The national Garden Village agenda has captured the imagination of both public and private sector stakeholders and in total there are close to £30bn worth of ‘live’ projects that fall under the garden communities descriptor; many more are in the pipeline.

Join our fantastic line up of speakers as they go into depth about policy, challenges and collaboration opportunities while taking a look at how the agenda may be shaped for the annual conference that is set to take place later in 2021.

Speakers for this event include:

Fiona Gray,
Project Director

Tim Atkins,
Managing Director of Place and Growth

Katy Lock,
Director, Communities and Project Delivery

Christopher Stanwell,
Partner

• Buckland Development Ltd – the Master Developer of Welborne in Hampshire.  The project is unique in many ways with a legacy vision to deliver homes, employment, infrastructure, green space and more for a sustainable new community in the region.  2021 will be pivotal to turning our vision, created over the last decade, into reality.

• Cyber Central Garden Community – one of the masterminds behind the 3000 home Cyber Central Garden Village and business park project, Tim will join the session to talk about the challenges and opportunities that face his team as they aim to deliver two million square feet of office space alongside a major residential area. Golden Valley- as it is to be called upon completion- recently finished its public consultation stage and are now working with a number of developers to kick start development on site.

• Town and Country Planning Association – as Director of Communities and FJ Osborn Fellow Katy oversees TCPA’s work on new and renewed communities and leads on the TCPA’s campaigns and promotion of garden city principles in policy, legislation, education and the arts. This involves working at all levels of government and with a wide range of public, private and third sector organisations and individuals, at all stages of planning, design and delivery. Katy is also responsible for overseeing Project Delivery at the TCPA.

• DAC Beachcroft – Christopher is a Planning And Environmental Lawyer in our London Office. Christopher leads our national Planning team and is a member of the Real Estate Executive. He specialises in advising for both private and public sector clients on a wide range of planning, compulsory purchase, highways and public law matters, with a particular emphasis on mixed-use regeneration, housing, retail, and infrastructure projects. Christopher also has extensive judicial review experience, which includes hearings in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

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Our online webinars will merge our face-to-face events with a virtual platform – providing networking opportunities, an exceptional panel discussion and debate, speaker presentations and an exhibition hall. The agenda will run as follows:

09:45-10:00 – Networking & Exhibition

10:00-11:00 – Main Stage – Speaker Presentations, Discussion, Debate and Q&A

11:00-11:30 – Networking & Exhibition

Here’s a little video highlighting what to expect…

And here’s a bit more information of key areas of our online webinars…

You’ll receive unique log-in details to join our online event via computer or phone – and you’ll be greeted with an easy navigation tool. You’ll be able to navigate to:

Main Stage

Where the webinar will take place with excellent speakers and content. You’ll be able to get involved, asking questions and taking part in live polls.

Networking

Just like a real event you’ll be able to meet and connect with new people in our forum. You can directly request to chat with someone or you can enter our ‘speed networking’ area to meet numerous new people within the industry. Get your elevator pitch ready!

Sponsor / Exhibitor Area

Meet our partners and sponsors – view what they’re all about, video chat with them and download their literature and product information.