National Urban Design Conference 2024

Thursday 19 September 2024 (All day) to Saturday 21 September 2024 (All day)
Plymouth

Tickets - Early Bird Registration

The tickets are available at the same price as last year’s conference. Early Bird reductions are available until one minute before Midnight Thursday 5 September 2024

Non-members – save 10 % on the standard ticket prices*. If you are not yet a member, do check whether it would save you money to join the Urban Design Group.  (Membership takes immediate effect on receipt of payment.)   

Urban Design Group Members – save 38 % on the standard ticket prices*,

UDG Registered Practices - save 38 % on the standard ticket prices* - you can bring any member of staff, and guests at these rates.   

*excludes the conference dinner and boat trip – which are offered at cost.

Sponsored Tickets

Local Authorities - very heavily reduced sponsored tickets are available for councillors and officers

Housebuilders and developers - 50% reduction on key tickets 


Programme

Thursday 19 September 2024 - Theatre Royal, Plymouth

Morning 9.30-12:30

Urban Renaissance – Looking Back – Looking Forward

25 years of policy and programmes – what happened, what worked, what remains to be done

    Welcome: Paul Reynolds, Chair UDG
    History of the Urban Task Force – Why, What, How 
        Martin Crookston, Urban Taskforce Member
    Farrell Review – A Decade On 
        Max Farrell, LDN Collective
    By Design – The Policy legacy & its impact
        Hugo Nowell, Urban Initiatives Studio

 

Workshop How can we overcome the barriers to delivering quality development at scale?

        Led by Katja Stille, Tibbalds
 

Lunch + walk around the Old Town Square public realm works 

 

Afternoon 13:30-17:00

The Plymouth Story - centuries of urban reinvention 

Plymouth: "the greatest built example of post-war British planning and architecture"?

    Opening Keynote 
        Councillor Tudor Evans OBE, Leader, Plymouth City Council 
    Plymouth – Design and Development and the Abercrombie Plan Legacy
         Martin Ivatt, Plymouth City Council, Dr Stephen Essex, University of Plymouth
    Plymouth – Britain’s Ocean City 
        Amanda Lumley – Destination Plymouth

The Sustainable City

    Introduction, Lucy Fineberg 
    An Eco-Responsive Approach to 'Get Britain Building Again’
        Prachi Rampuria, ecoResponsive Environments
    Urban Design and Active Travel - from concept to delivery
        Dan Crane, Active Travel England
    Density
       
Professor Husam Al Waer, University of Dundee
    Delivering the Sustainable City – Identifying and Meeting Need
        Luke Hillson and Dan Usher, Marrons
    Lights, Camera, Economy
        Bruce Calton, UMC Architects
    Mixed use industrial redevelopment -  Bow Goods Yard 
        Blazej Czuba, MacCreanor Lavington
    Devonport – Regeneration Story
        Matthew Coombe, Plymouth City Council

Evening

Evening Cruise  –  17:45- 19:00 - An opportunity to see the extensive regeneration of dock, victualing and chandlery facilities of this historic naval city from the seeward side.  Including the Royal William Yard, Devonport, Brunel's unique Saltash bridge dating from the 1850s and 170 years on still providing the railway link to Cornwall.  Coincides with International Talk like a Pirate day!   

Brunel's unique Saltash bridge dating from the 1850s and 170 years on still provides the railway link to Cornwall.

 

Conference Dinner at the Custom House 19:30 


 

Day 2 Friday 20 September Theatre Royal, Plymouth

9:30-13:00

Making Towns and Cities Work

Introduction: Louise Thomas, Leo Hammond

Greening Towns and Cities
    Barne Barton Regeneration – Building with Nature    
        Clifton Emery Design 
    Leveraging Technology to Provide Nature Based Solutions for the Future City 
        Charlotte Markey, University of Exeter
    How homes can be part of the solution to the biodiversity crisis
        Bethany Kiss, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 
    Urban Greening : Reimagining Canary Wharf
        Jack Pritchard, Howells

Urban Extensions & New Towns  
    New Settlements and Urban Extensions - Successes and challenges in using design codes
    The Greater Cambridge Experience  -  General lessons and next steps 

         Trovine Monteiro, Greater Cambridge Shared Planning
    YES! Let children have a say in the design coding process!
        Bonnie Kwok and Tom Davies
        Greater Cambridge Shared Planning
    New towns… Lessons From Cranbrook, Devon
        Simon Pugh, David Lock Associates

Existing Towns : Regeneration & Reinvention         
    Caerphilly Regeneration and Masterplan
        Paul Seaver, Stride Treglown
        Hamish Munroe, Caerphilly County Borough Council
Technology for planning and for community involvement     
    Footflow: Forecasting pedestrian activity

        Martin Wedderburn, Wedderburn Transport Planning
    3D and immersive public engagement for improved project outcomes    
        Matt Rain, Digital Urban
 

14:00-16:00 

Making the Investment: Delivering the Sustainable City

    Introduction: Hannah Smart & Rob Thompson

    Delivery - The role of the public sector
        Joe Wharton, Homes England
    Delivering Town Centre Infrastructure
    turning sustainable drainage systems into quality public realm     
        Will Hudson, Jubb
    Delivering a new town – Ebbsfleet - A garden city for the 21st century
    The development corporation model
        Kevin McGough, Ebbsfleet Development Corporation
    Delivering the Urban Renaissance – The Scarborough Story
        Charles Campion, JTP  
        Nick Taylor, Renaissance Manager

Close

Evening

For anyone wanting to stay beyond the conference, there will be further Walking Tours and informal drinks and dinner @ Royal William Yard.


Saturday 21 September

Explore Development in the South West

Lightly organised groups

May include – further walks around Plymouth

Nansledan – Sherford – Cranbrook – Poundbury – etc