Urban Design - Its not just for towns and cities - Making Small Towns Great Places

Agenda Friday 30th September 2016

Venue: North East Derbyshire District Council, District Council Offices,

2013 Mill Lane, Wingerworth, Chesterfield S42 6NG

 

9.00 - 9.30 am Registration and Coffee

 

9.30 – 9.40 am Welcome and Introductions – Cllr Michael Gordon

• Robert Huxford, Urban Design Group – Event Chair

 

9.40 – 10.10 am The National Context and applying Best Practice to make sure Urban Design is not just for cities 

• Matthew Carmona - Professor of Planning & Urban Design, The Bartlett School of Planning

 

10.10 – 11.00 am National Presentations on Garden Villages and Healthy Towns initiative followed by Q and A

• Kevin McGeough – Head of Strategy and Place Making, Ebbsfleet

• David Rudlin - Director, URBED (Urbanism Environment Design)

 

11.00 - 11.20 am How do we make great places in areas of lower value –

Mark Rees, Technical Director, Kier Living

 

11.20 – 11.30 am Coffee break

 

11.30 – 12.10 pm Panel presentations – Using expertise to make small towns

great places

 

12.10 – 1.10 pm Discussion Groups

• Engaging Communities, Laura Alvarez – Nottingham Trent University / Alkiki

• ‘Landscape: the whole place’, Tom Lonsdale – Placecraft

• Community Wellbeing, Prof Rhiannon Corcoran - Heseltine Institute University of Liverpool

• Sustainable Regeneration Frameworks, Graham Marshall - Prosocial Place

 

1.10 – 1.20 pm Urban Design Academy - Allison Westray-Chapman

 

1.20 - 1.30 pm Closing Remarks - Cllr Michael Gordon

 

1.30 - 2.00 pm Lunch and networking