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Insights
News, views and intelligence from cross-sector leaders, discussing the future cities and the role of real estate, identifying & responding to key challenges facing the industry.
What if…London’s town centres were more sustainable?
Associate Director at Gardiner & Theobald Jessica Pennell, discusses how the use of mass timber could help address the UK’s climate emergency, helping to support a sustainable and polycentric London.Read More
Greater London: a leisurely return to its polycentric origins?
Partner at Trowers & Hamlins, Julien Allen explores how the leisure sector and hospitality industry will respond to the up-and-coming polycentres around outer and central London.Read More
Polycentric cities
Rosanna Sterry, Principal Commercial Planner at Transport for London, discusses the importance of developing around transport nodes in the city unlocking new opportunities for town centres across London, supporting the 15-minute neighbourhood concept.Read More
A new centre in the making
John Forrester, President of Cushman & Wakefield, spotlights Brent Cross Town as a new ‘centre’ in the making.Read More
Will the pandemic create a more diffused urban landscape?
Partner at Deloitte Real Estate, Simon Bedford explores the impact of the pandemic on our urban landscape.Read More
How can we transform our high streets?
Sophie Bowerman, Associate Partner at Axiom Architects, reflects on the priorities needed to achieve sustainable and multipurpose network of neighbourhoods.Read More
Serving the population of the future
At JLL, we are confident that our city centres will remain the engine of growth. The urbanisation of recent decades will not reverse, but there will be significant changes, and we will see winners and losers emerge.Read More
Investment Summit: State of the Market
“Social distancing is the antithesis of city life!” proclaimed Tony Travers, our modern-day Dr Johnson and staunch defender of all that is great about London even in these strained pandemic times, calling for a range of post-COVID ‘welcome back’ events incorporating the arts and public spaces.Read More
Boroughs drive investment through regeneration and partnership
Hard-hit boroughs across London are digging deep to unlock investment to drive growth, powered by a new zest for collaboration and partnerships with the private and voluntary sectors they forged during lockdown. So said local authority politicians including Waltham Forest council leader Cllr Clare Coghill at London: driving growth, the final session in this year’s …Continue reading "Boroughs drive investment through regeneration and partnership"
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London set for ‘very strong’ bounce back
London is set to bounce back ‘very, very strongly’ in the third quarter of this year but should plan recovery events to lure back its temporarily dwindled population, avoid knee-jerk planning responses to its ailing high streets and instead treat them like ‘market stalls’ that are able to respond and adapt at pace.Read More
London: Driving Growth
What approaches and strategies are being applied at a local level to facilitate partnerships and investment? What is the role of the private sector in unlocking potential and supporting sustainable growth? What are the priorities for the year ahead? How can we define and measure the value of new developments, socially as well as economically? …Continue reading "London: Driving Growth"
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Scotland: Enabling a Green Future
In this session, Katrine Feldinger, Deputy Director of the recently constituted Scottish National Investment Bank, gives an opening briefing to share Scotland’s economic growth strategy, its ambitious plans in the drive to net zero and how Scottish Government, cities and regional stakeholders are enabling a transformational investment agenda in the lead up to Cop26. The …Continue reading "Scotland: Enabling a Green Future"
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Birmingham: ‘Future Proofing’ the Big City
This session focusses on Birmingham’s Future City Plan that sets out strategies and directions of development in the city for the next 10 years. The next decade will see the arrival of High Speed Two in the city centre, the hosting of the Commonwealth Games and the delivery of major new mixed use and commercial …Continue reading "Birmingham: ‘Future Proofing’ the Big City"
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West Midlands: Developing in Partnership
What does the region need to continue to attract new sources of capital and new occupiers? How do we best articulate our competitiveness and sector strengths in a time of unprecedented change? These are some of the questions asked as the West Midlands Combined Authority defines its strategies for growth in partnership with the private …Continue reading "West Midlands: Developing in Partnership"
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Liverpool: Levelling Up Post-COVID
Liverpool explore how the city and city region’s economic recovery is being spearheaded through 2021 and how the government’s ambitions to “level up” can be reflected in this agenda. How does the next lockdown halt and hinder the levelling up agenda and what do we need to do next to keep ahead in spite of …Continue reading "Liverpool: Levelling Up Post-COVID"
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