As part of its series of autumn seminars, the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) has announced that they will be hosting a seminar – Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today – in Warrington next Tuesday, November 10, at Birchwood Forum, Chadwick House, Birchwood Park.
With the recent upsurge in interest – both politically and across the built environment sector – in
exploiting the potential of the Garden City approach to development, there is now a major opportunity for local authorities to consider, through the Local Plan, whether a Garden City or Suburb could provide the right solution for the long-term future of their area; and then to help steer development to where it is needed.
Drawing upon the TCPA’s pioneering programme of research and campaigning the seminars are designed for all those interested in learning about:
•The opportunities to create new Garden Cities and Suburbs and on the benefits that they can deliver
•Understand the key questions that need to be addressed and the tools and resources available in planning and delivering sustainable growth
•Build plans for large-scale new development on the latest policy hooks
The TCPA is extending an open invitation to all those interested in delivering high-quality, sustainable new communities including local authority elected members and officers, planners, business and infrastructure providers, government officials, developers, architects, landscape architects, economists, consultants, academics and those from NGOs and voluntary organisations.
The seminar is free to attend.
Chaired by Warrington & Co. Executive Director of Economic Regeneration, Andy Farrall, (pictured) the event programme is as follows:
12.30 Light lunch and registration
13.00 Welcome and introduction from Cllr Terry O’Neill, Leader of Warrington Borough Council
13.05 Welcome from the Chair Andy Farrall, Executive Director: Economic Regeneration, Growth & Environment, Warrington Borough Council
13.10 Why Garden Cities and Suburbs today? An overview of political and policy context Katy Lock, Garden Cities & New Towns Advocate, TCPA
13.35 Back to the future: Lessons from the first Garden City – Josh Tidy, Curator, Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
13.55 Delivering the homes, jobs and communities of the future: the opportunities of scale – Julian Pye, Area Co-ordinator, HCA Advisory Team for Large Applications (HCA-ATLAS)
14.15 Questions to the panel
14.35 Coffee break
14.55 Masterplanning Garden Cities and Suburbs – Matthew Lappin, Partner, David Lock Associates
15.15 Warrington: learning from the past and looking to the future Andy Farrall, Executive Director: Economic Regeneration, Growth & Environment, Warrington Borough Council
15.35 Creating a high-quality new community at Whitehill-Bordon Steve Pearce, Project Director, East Hampshire District Council (tbc)
15.55 Questions to the panel
16.15 Conclusions from Chair
16.20 Finish
To register your attendance at this free event or for further information contact: Michael McLean on Mob: 0207 930 8903 or email: [email protected]
Visit www.tcpa.org.uk/events
