The Building New Communities initiative has announced the programme for its 2025 conference on 29 April.
Alex Notay, Chair, Radix Big Tent Housing Commission, will be chairing the Building New Communities event at RIBA, Portland Place, London.
Local authorities, developers, housebuilders, funders, architects, planners and other stakeholders involved in the delivery of new homes, will come together for panel discussions, keynotes and fireside chats to identify challenges, solutions and opportunities for the sector now and in the future.
Themes will include:
Creating communities, not ‘delivering units’
Health, happiness and beautiful homes
In the context of climate change
Governance and management
NIMBYs to YIMBYs
What will town centres need in 2050?
Can you have it all?
Garden community programme update
The day concludes with a drinks’ reception – the perfect networking opportunity.
Previously known as the Building Garden Communities Conference, the day-long event has broadened its scope to include the development of the new towns announced by the government in July last year.
The new towns are central to the Government’s target of delivering 1.5 million homes within this Parliament – the largest housebuilding programme since the post-war period – to kickstart economic growth and “get Britain building again.”
The Building New Communities programme supports industry and Government in its commitment to deliver these large-scale communities of at least 10,000 new homes, to tackle barriers to economic growth and help more people own their home. Alongside these affordable and high-quality properties, new jobs, infrastructure, green spaces and leisure facilities will help create truly sustainable communities, delivering significant economic and social value to their local areas.
The 2025 conference is supported by a range of partners, including Ebbsfleet Development Corporation / Garden City, English Estates, Greenbelt Group, Mills & Reeve, Pinsent Masons, UCEM and Urban Design Group.
To book your place at the Building New Communities conference, please visit www.buildingnewcommunities.co.uk
If you are interested in becoming a partner or speaker for the event, contact Amy Crawford acrawford@wlcreative.org.uk
