Events
2021
Webinar: Digital Planning - Big news or hot air?
With a reformed planning system on the horizon, there is an opportunity to introduce innovation that can have lasting impact. This session will ask what are the opportunities and risks of a more digital approach to planning. How can local authorities and developers respond to the opportunity?
March 22nd, 2021 @ 6pm to 7pm
Sponsored by Instinctif Partners
Register here
Webinar: Design Codes Do's and Don'ts
The National Model Design Code and the Planning for the Future White Paper have set a clear ambition for design codes to play a greater role in ensuring quality, certainty and community consent for development. What will this mean in practice? What are some of the opportunities, advantages and risks?
February 24th, 2021 @ 8:30 am to 9:30 am
Sponsored by Countryside
Register here
2020
Creating Communities Conference 2020
Places beyond a pandemic
September 21st to 23rd, 2020
co-organised with Onward
Online
www.creatingcommunities.co
Webinar: Planning during a pandemic
A short term 'blip' or a long term change?
May 11th, 2020 @ 8:30 am
A joint BBBC / Create Streets event
Zoom videoconference
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Breakfast round table
February 4th, 2020 @ 8:00 am
A joint RTPI / Create Streets event
AECOM, 16th floor, Aldgate Tower, 2 Leman Street, London E1 8FA
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2019
The National Design Guide: A vision for Building Beautifully Designed Homes
With Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
A joint Policy Exchange / Create Streets event
October 23rd, 2019 @ 8:30 am
Kindly hosted by Policy Exchange.
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Clean air for all – tackling air pollution and creating cleaner environments
A Times + event
Times subscribers can book tickets here
July 22nd, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
The News Building, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF
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Creating Communities Conference
www.creatingcommunities.co
co-organised with Onward
February 21st, 2019 @ 8:15am
U+I, 7A Howick Place, London Victoria
Kindly sponsored by U+I, Lightwood, CCN, Hydrock, Rilke Homes and JTP.
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2018
Design Code breakfast
September 26th, 2018 @ 9:00am
Instinctif Partners, 65 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7NQ.
Kindly hosted by Instinctif.
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Planning 3.0 roundtable:
More good homes - Making planning more proportionate, predictable and equitable
July 16th, 2018 @ 10:30am
The Legatum Institute, 11 Charles St, Mayfair, London W1J 5DW
Kindly hosted by the Legatum Institute.
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Morphological Resilience Evaluation and Economics round table
June 6th, 2018 @ 12:00am
The RSA, 8 John Adam St, London WC2N 6EZ.
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Planning 3.0 roundtable:
From nationalised development rights to regulated development rights - what should the planning system look like in 2030?
May 16th, 2018 @ 11:00am
The RSA, 8 John Adam St, London WC2N 6EZ.
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Lunch with Deputy Mayor for Housing, London:
If we're going to build more council homes, what should we build?
February 22nd, 2018 @ 12:15pm
U+I, 7A Howick Place, London SW1P 1DZ.
Kindly hosted by U+I.
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2017
What should planning be like in 2040: planning for everybody or planning with everybody?
February 22nd, 2017 @ 5:30pm – 8:00pm
TCPA, 17 Carlton House Terrace, St. James's, London SW1Y 5AS
Create Streets & TCPA Event with Speakers, including Ben Page (CEO, Ipsos MORI), Dr Hugh Ellis (Head of Policy, TCPA), Nicholas Boys Smith (Director, Create Streets) and Liane Hartley (Director, Mend & founder of Urbanistas)
Kindly hosted by the TCPA
2016
Paddington Pole Competition: Exhibition & Awards Ceremony
July 18th, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
St Mary's Church Paddington, 1LG, St Mary's Square, London W2
Judges from the local community presented prizes on 18th July to celebrate the winning and commended designs; with a mini-exhibition and awards presented by Sir Simon Jenkins.
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Heart in the Right Street: Launch of our report
June 9th, 2016 @ 10:00 am
Legatum Institute, 11 Charles Street, London, W1J 5DW + Google Map
Our new report into associations between built form and wellbeing has already featured in The Economist and The FT.
9th June 2016. Very kindly hosted by the Legatum Institute as part of the wider discussion: Homes Not Houses: Putting Wellbeing First. You can buy a copy of the book here.
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Round table on Create Streets Economics of Place project
March 15, 2016 @ 10:00 am
RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ
Nicholas Boys Smith, Director of Create Streets, and Alessandro Venerandi, research project lead, will be setting out their research.
Kindly hosted by the RSA and member of Create Streets network and fellow of the RSA Jonathan Schifferes.
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Manifesto breakfast launch event: a direct planning revolution for London?
March 8, 2016 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Instinctif Partners, 65 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7NQ
Nicholas Boys Smith sets out the analysis underlying the manifesto and its key components, with responses from experienced designers, developers and planners as part of a wider discussion.
Kindly hosted by Instinctif Partner.
2015
Mount Pleasant: old problem or new solution?
September 17, 2015 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Alan Baxter Associates, 75 Cowcross St, Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 6EL + Google Map
With Edward Denison (Mount Pleasant Association, Alexandra Steed (Mount Pleasant Association and Urban Design), Francis Terry (Architect), John Spence (Architect - calfordseaden), Richard Maxwell (Surveyor - Carter Jonas), Professor Peter Rees (Former head of planning at the City of London), Nick Perry (Reclaim London and the Hackney Society), Cllr Sue Vincent (Camden Council), Michael Ball…
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Mayoral discussion: London needs to build the right housing not just more housing
June 4, 2015 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Legatum Institute, 11 Charles Street London, W1J 5DW + Google Map
With mayoral candidates Rt Hon David Lammy and Ivan Massow, Professor Yolande Barnes (Global Head of Research, Savills), Toby Lloyd (Head of Policy, Shelter). Moderated by Evan Davis. Kindly hosted by The Legatum Foundation
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Mapping wellbeing: Is beauty subjective?
June 1, 2015 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Legatum Institute, 11 Charles Street, London, W1J 5DW + Google Map
A seminar with Dr Yodan Rofe. Attendees included leading urban designer, Paul Murrain, Dr Jonathan Roken (UCL) and Anna Rose (Space Syntax) as well as many others. Kindly hosted by The Legatum Institute
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Can streets solve the London housing crisis?
February 10, 2015 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Alan Baxter Associates, 75 Cowcross St, Clerkenwell , London, EC1M 6EL + Google Map
With Yolande Barnes (Savills), Ben Derbyshire (HTA Design) Max Farrell (Farrells), Paul Murrain (Create Streets)
Kindly hosted by Alan Baxter Associates and sponsored by calfordseaden