Market Towns

Public Realm - Design - New Housing - Vitality

Featuring the themes of issue 129 of Urban Designon Market Towns (topic editor Jane Manning)

Programme

Enhancing the Wider Economic and Social Value of Market Towns

Chris Wade (CEO) & Catherine Hammant (Policy Chairman) Towns Alive

• Overview including Town Centre Benchmarking and 'Between the Lines' Car Parking Assessment -Chris Wade (CEO, Towns Alive)
• Public realm improvements in town centres: Factors influencing implementation and some examples -Catherine Hammant (Policy Chairman, Towns Alive)

Designs to Enhance Market Towns

Anthony Benson, Allies & Morrison

New Market Towns: A model for the delivery of the nations housing needs.

James Gross/Dominic Scott, Barton Willmore

Followed by discussion