The Building Homes Programme is the place to learn how to provide great places to live. This year our events include focus on the current drive to zero carbon, the use of masterplans and design codes and how new housing can respond to the pandemic.
Subscribe to our Building Homes Programme for access to a wide range of events that focus on all stages of the development process and help you overcome the barriers to delivering good quality housing. For more information please get in touch.
Wed 19/01/22, am
Online
Do communities remain involved in the shaping of their local area as it changes? Has this been successful, and how could it change into the future? This session will explore the story of homes and communities and discuss future directions for resident engagement, ballots, community led housing and more, including the growing use of digital methods.
Agenda
9.45 Registration
10.00 Introduction & Overview – Home making and shaping
10.40 What methods and approaches are delegate organisations using?
10.50 Comfort break
11.00 What are the ways of working with and for residents? What is effective and what creates the places needed for communities to flourish? Including statutory engagement, use of ballots, co-design and community led housing.
12.00 Shaping and making homes of the future – speaker and delegate discussion
12.45 Wrap up & Close
Wed 09/02/22
Online
Delivering housing for diverse groups and across the generations is a huge challenge. This session explores successful approaches and how they can inform your thinking in this increasingly important area.
Tue 08/03/22, am
Online
Collaboration is key to bring in vital skills in housing delivery, so how can partnerships help to provide great places? An in-depth look at all aspects of partnership working in the housing sector.
Wed 08/12/21, pm
Zoom
For this session we are looking at the changing balance of demolition vs retrofit – how has climate change affected the choices and what is working best for communities? With short provocations from the sector and opportunity for sharing across housing teams within organisations.
Agenda
13.30 Welcome & Introduction
13.40 Demolition or Retrofit?
14.15 Discussion
14.45 Close
Tue 16/11/21, 10am–1pm
Zoom
An essential update on the shifting pattern of funding for housing, exploring the latest trends and finding ways to deliver great places within your budget.
Agenda:
9.45 Registration
10.00 Introduction & Overview – Funding Housing, Valerie Conway & Debbie Lloyd, David Lock Associates
10.20 What funding streams are provided and who brings them to the table
11.35 Break
11.50 Bringing it all together & making it work
12.45 Wrap up discussion
13:00 Close
Wed 13/10/21, 9.30am–4pm
Zoom
Over the last 18 months, UDL has held a series of Urban Challenge events looking at fresh thinking on how urban areas are designed, planned and managed. The conversations have been amazingly rich, pointing to potential ways we can practically combat climate change, inequality, public health problems and biodiversity decline.
This session continues the series, building on concepts previously discussed whilst bringing in new voices.
Watch a short video here on 'Can we plan for local living? And should we?' by Esther Kurland, Head of UDL.
If you are not a member, please email info@urbandesignlondon.com to book your place.
Agenda
9.30 Session 1: New ideas on cities
10.15 Comfort Break
10.30 Session 2: New ideas on travel
12.15 Lunch Break
13.00 Session 3 New ideas on buildings & activities
14.15 Comfort Break
14.30 Session 4 New Ideas on neighbourhoods
16.00 Close
Evening Reception
17.30 - 19.30
We are inviting conference attendees to join us for an evening reception at Hassell, to continue the conversation about urban futures in person.
The address is: 6 – 14 Underwood Street, London N17JQ.
If you are travelling from afar, Hassell also has a few hot-desk spaces available for the day.
Please email Maanya Bali to sign up.
Tue 28/09/21, am
Zoom
Flexibility is about letting people live their lives the way that works for them – letting people work, relax and play. We will explore the opportunities and challenges of designing for flexibility and how to achieve this in practice .
If you are not currently a member, please email us info@urbandesignlondon.com to reserve your place.
Agenda:
10.00 Welcome & Introduction
How adaptability has evolved, what do clients and residents want now? Yolande Barnes, Bartlett Real Estate
Drivers for Flexibility, Grant Leggett, Director and Head, Boyer London
10.30 Flexibility in Practice
What examples have worked & why, David Birkbeck, Design for Homes
Comfort break
Case Studies
Knights Park Cambridge, Teresa Borsuk, Senior Advisor, PTEA Knights Park Cambridge
Alexis Butterfied, Associate Partner, PTEA Knights Park Cambridge
Connector Housing, Jennifer Beningfield , Principal and Founder, Openstudio Architects
Using Flexible Construction for great placemaking, Patrick Usborne, Director, Perpendicular Architecture & Paul Inch, Director, Better Delivery
Intergenerational Homes, Eleanor Brough & Sarah Wigglesworth, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Q&A
12.00 Break
12.15 Overcoming the Challenges
Frances Holliss, London Metropolitan University
Irene Craik, Levitt Bernstein
Roland Karthus, Matter Architecture
Q & A
13.00 Wrap up discussion & close
Tue 13/07/21, am
Online
This session will explore schemes with complexity in the design or delivery including mixed use, multi tenure and dense schemes. We will learn from successful case studies and understand key strategies for the delivery of great places.
Agenda includes:
- Antje Saunders, Allies & Morrison
- Eleni Stathi, HTA
- Paul Quinn, Clarion Housing Group
- Paul Buckenham, Tower Hamlets
- Peter Maxwell, LLDC
Thu 10/06/21, 10.00 - 12.30 pm
Online
Masterplans are a core part of place shaping. This two-part morning session provides both an introduction to masterplanning including the relationship to design codes; and practical help for those who work with masterplans from day to day.
Wed 26/05/21, 10.00 - 12.30 pm
Online
Are we successfully tackling the housing crisis? Are we building enough high quality homes in the right places, at a level people can afford? This session will debate all aspects of this key issue.
Wed 05/05/21, 10am–1pm
Online
There is much confusion on how to achieve zero carbon and where the milestones lie along the way. This session will look at a range of approaches and discuss the practical challenges.
Agenda