Supporting Historic High Streets: The Ingredients for Success in the 21st Century - Part 1

9.30am

Meet at Kellogg College for optional visit to area around Oxfords new Westgate shopping centre

11.15am

Tea and coffee on arrival

11.30am

Welcome and introduction,Louise Thomas, HTVF Director

11.45pm

Managing Oxford city centre - discussion session, Laurie Taylor, Oxford City

Centre Manager

12.15pm

Is the High Street really dead or dying?Jonathan Burnett, Springboard

Research Ltd

12.45pm

Q&A

1pm

Lunch

1.45pm

Enabling town centres to adapt to change, John Parmiter, Future High Streets

2.15pm

Understanding local urban character and planning for intensification,
Jane Manning, Allies and Morrison Urban Practitioners

2.45pm

What can a Business Improvement District (BID) do?Catherine Turness,

Executive Director, Winchester BID

3.15pm

Q&A followed by tea and coffee

3.45pm

Ageing town centres, Louise Thomas, Director, HTVF

4.15pm

The Community Value of Markets, Professor Sophie Watson, Open University

4.45pm

Regenerating Hillingdons High Streets, Councillor Douglas Mills, Cabinet

Member for Regeneration, and Councillor Susan OBrien, Town Centre

Programme Adviser, London Borough of Hillingdon

5.15pm

Q&A and seminar close