National Urban Design Conference 2025: Urban Design Quality for Everyone
Session 4. Chaired by Louise Thomas
00:00:00 – What developers really want & what we have learned so far for practices
With the government’s ambition to provide 1.5 m new homes over 5 years, how can developers be helped to deliver ‘pieces of town’ rather than housing estates? What do developers see as the role of urban design in delivering better places? Louise Thomas.
00:21:59 – Place based social value in regeneration. Ioana Gherghel
00:35:03 – A broad range of intriguing findings from a ‘Slido’ poll.
00:48:31 – Panel discussion featuring Mike Bodkin, Development Manager & Head of Planning with Town; Rob Chilton, Urban Designer with Barratt Redrow; Isaac Jolly a Planner with Persimmon Homes.
Louise Thomas, architect and urban designer. Founding Director TDRC and Co-editor of Urban Design
Ioana Gherghel is an architect, Senior Urban Designer, researcher and AA Professional Studies Tutor
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