Re-Purposing and Re-Vitalising Town Centres
Getting from A to B: But Where do we Seek to go and How do we get There?
In first session of the Delivering Land Assembly International Summit, we look at three main points: What are the problems with towns? What is the future of towns? and lastly, how do we get from the problem to the solution.
Module Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Recorded: 18/05/21
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Areas covered
The Imperatives for Change
- Drivers
- Covid has accelerated change. Change of behaviours. Change of fortune for bricks and mortar retailers -v- internet retailers. Has Covid brought forward obsolescence of buildings, districts and traditional local authority services?
- What impact has that had on property investors?
- Have High Streets been put in terminal decline?
- Increased and sustained home working requires employers to question their occupancy needs. This will result in significant drops in footfalls in many urban environments
- Change Audit: Quantifying the extent of change and its potential impact
- The Consequences of Doing Nothing
- Obsolescence and deprivation and loss of inward investment
- Catalysts
- Is the commercial sector in good enough health to bring forward macro regeneration and renewal schemes? Are they capable of remodelling communities?
- Does the responsibility rest with public sector leadership with central government funding and incentives?
- The new viability conundrum: schemes should be less profit led, but strategic and sustainability led for a Covid changed world
- Micro development opportunities for more typical developers
A Case Study
- Drivers
- Covid has accelerated change. Change of behaviours. Change of fortune for bricks and mortar retailers -v- internet retailers. Has Covid brought forward obsolescence of buildings, districts and traditional local authority services?
- What impact has that had on property investors?
- Have High Streets been put in terminal decline?
- Increased and sustained home working requires employers to question their occupancy needs. This will result in significant drops in footfalls in many urban environments
- Change Audit: Quantifying the extent of change and its potential impact
- The Consequences of Doing Nothing
- Obsolescence and deprivation and loss of inward investment
- Catalysts
- Is the commercial sector in good enough health to bring forward macro regeneration and renewal schemes? Are they capable of remodelling communities?
- Does the responsibility rest with public sector leadership with central government funding and incentives?
- The new viability conundrum: schemes should be less profit led, but strategic and sustainability led for a Covid changed world
- Micro development opportunities for more typical developers
A Case Study
How to Respond
- No land and no rights to it equals no change!
- Land assembly strategies and tactics
- Retaining control
- Site assembly and development partners
Chaired Panel Session with Q & A's
How to Respond
- No land and no rights to it equals no change!
- Land assembly strategies and tactics
- Retaining control
- Site assembly and development partners
Chaired Panel Session with Q & A's
Speakers
- Colin Smith, Senior Director, CBRE Ltd
- Nicola Rigby, Principal, Avison Young
- John Sayer, Senior Director, CBRE
- Virginia Blackman, Principal - National Head Site Assembly & Compulsory Purchase, Avison Young
- Dr Jonathan Carr-West, Chief Executive, Local Government Information Unit (LGiU)
- Jonathan Bower Solicitor, Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson LLP