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