Access & Activity: Creating successful town centre and local economies
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Creating successful town centre and local economies
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17th Annual Quality Streetscapes Conference
26 Apr 2012 | 15 Hatfields, London
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How do we create places that people want to visit and spend time in?
This event will explore:
- Innovative ways to demonstrate how good urban realm design adds economic and social value
- Delivering place-based approaches to growth and vitality in the age of localism
- Effective tools and practices to mitigate development risk
- Best practice local partnership working in an evolving funding and planning framework
- Focused approaches to urban realm investment
- Place-making as a key driver of economically viable and socially sustainable development
Presentations will explore the use of new tools and practices to deliver a deep understanding of the demonstrable relationship between good urban design and value, and explore innovative partnership approaches to developing place-based local plans rooted in credible viability testing.
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This event will provide essential information and insights for the following:
- Urban designers
- Highway and traffic engineers
- Planners
- Architects
- Town centre managers
- Landscape architects
- Regeneration managers
- Conservation officers
- Estate and property managers
- Developers
- Economic development officers
- Consultants
- Retailers
- Local Governement policy makers
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Speakers include:
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- Brian Fitzpatrick, Head of Highways, EC Harris
- Tim Stonor, Managing Director, Space Syntax
- Julian Dobson, CEO, Urban Pollinators
- Patrick Troy, CEO, British Parking Association/ATCM
(joint report into town centre parking practices)
- Patrick Knight, Head of Place Management & Economic Development, Plymouth City Council
- Rob Cowan, Urban Design Skills
- Laura Vaughan, Professor of Urban Form and Society, UCL
- Martina Juvara, Global Head of Urban Design, SKM Colin Buchanan
- Councillor Shona Johnstone, Vice Chair of the Local Government Association Economy and Transport Board
- Andy Perkins, Development, Locality
Download the programme | Secure your place
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Commercial/Standard
Local Authority/Small business (<5 staff)
Voluntary sector/Students
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£295 +VAT
£225 +VAT
£145 +VAT
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Conference Enquiries: 020 7091 7865 or email [email protected]
Book online today.
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This event will explore:
- how to create strong partnerships and positive management organisations to drive town centre growth, value and vitality
- the range of powers, guidance and tools that can help town centres
- how to use use available tools and processes effectively
- the many creative approaches that local partnerships are already taking
- ways of assessing need, particularly in the case of social and cultural uses gaps in knowledge and practice, and potential ways forward
Growth and value: an economic and delivery framework for place-making
- Place economics: assessing need, place audits and evidence-based, town-centre focused business plans
- Delivering a collective vision: techniques for capturing the economic performance of places
- Finding the funding: policy aspirations and delivering place-based outcomes
Designing for delight: attractive and accessible centres
- Convenient journeys: accessibility to, from and within town centres
- Creating active, multi-functional hubs: delivering better transport-related outcomes
- Towards 'destination' and the retail, business and leisure mix
Joined up thinking: agreed visions and town centre business planning
- Policy context, guidance and tools for the new mix of local government, business and stakeholder input
- Linking business growth, economic development and revenue: spotlight on car parking strategies
- Performance management: measuring, demonstrating and communicating success
Great expectations: responding to what communities need and want
- Localism in practice: accommodating changing movement, living, working and leisure patterns
- Generating new uses and revenue for places in transition
- Place-making, not planning: using available tools and processes effectively
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