Director of Place Shaping at Westminster City Council to join 'Science Cities'
300 Harrow Road regeneration for Westminster City Council - with Regent's Canal on right (Child Graddon Lewis) Director of Place Shaping and Town Planning at Westminster City Council, Deirdra Armsby, will be speaking at our next 'Science Cities' forum on 14th April. The forum will look at the creation and design of high quality housing, public realm and community amenities in our towns and cities post Covid-19, Access to green space has become a particular focus during the
Future Cities Forum's all-female panel for our summer 2021 awards
Future Cities Forum is releasing the first names of our all-female judging panel for our 2021 summer awards across the built environment and is delighted that the following women have agreed to join: Chief Executive, London Borough of Southwark, Eleanor Kelly, was appointed as the council's permanent chief executive and statutory head of paid service in July 2012. Eleanor joined the council in an interim capacity in 2006, became deputy chief executive in September 2008 and wa
Our Future Cities Forum 'Cultural Cities' report
Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock looking north towards the Museum of Liverpool. Leaders from National Museums Liverpool, Birmingham Museums Trust, The Wallace Collection in London, MICA Architects and Stoke on Trent's Cultural Destination Partnership, spoke at Future Cities Forum this week on the issues around encouraging visitors back to museums and city attractions post Covid-19. There were questions around the value of grants being offered to museums and how these should be d
The future for Stoke-on-Trent as visitor destination post Covid-19
Paul Williams, Chair of Stoke-on-Trent's Cultural Destinations Partnership will be joining our 'Cultural Cities' discussion next week to speak about how the pottery towns will develop as a tourist attraction post Covid-19. Paul says that despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, he sees exciting times ahead for Stoke's city centre and quotes the potteries' most famous author, Arnold Bennett: 'any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawb
Are mobility systems gender-neutral?
The global engineering, architecture and consultancy company, Ramboll, has been discussing whether mobility systems in Europe and beyond are gender-neutral. Research released this week by the company suggests that men still dominate the transport sector, where less than a third of people employed are women. It also says that the way women and men move around society also differs significantly and asks the question whether mobility systems are biased towards men's travel nee
National Brownfield Institute puts West Midlands on sustainable construction map
Work has started on the 'shovel ready' £175 million National Brownfield Institute. Building contractor ISG has broken ground on the site which is located on the University of Wolverhampton's £120m Springfield Campus and which received planning approval last December. The new build project, taking place on a regenerated brownfield site - the former Springfield brewery - directly addresses the government agenda of circular economy focusing on the challenges of building new home
BEIS and city councils on the Net Zero challenge
Queen's Quay Energy Centre - Clydebank, Glasgow (Vital Energi) The first in our '2021 energy and sustainability' series brought together the Head of Local Energy from the BEIS, Patrick Allcorn, with Tom Warburton, Director of City Futures at Newcastle City Council and the Chief Executive of Warrington Council, Professor Steve Broomhead, as well Vital Energi's Managing Director for the North and Midlands, Mike Cooke and Alister Kratt, Director and leader of LDA Design's energ
Mayor of London to prioritise housing for key workers
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is to recognise the service and sacrifice made by key workers during the Coronavirus pandemic by backing them to be first in the queue for thousands of new and genuinely affordable homes being built across the capital. The list will include nurses and other NHS staff as well as police officers, transport workers, firefighters and teachers. A new expectation detailed in planning guidance will mean boroughs use this list to give people in these
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to join Future Cities Forum discussions
MK Gateway - CGI of proposed mixed-use development in Milton Keynes (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) We are delighted that the architecture practice Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners - a new member of the forum this year - will be joining our 'Science Cities', 'European Tech Hubs' and 'High Streets' discussions. RSHP is an international architectural practice based in London and over the past four decades has attracted critical acclaim with awards for built projects across Eur
Birmingham Museums Trust to speak at our 'Cultural Cities' forum
We are delighted that the Co-CEO at Birmingham Museums Trust Zak Mensah will be joining our 'Cultural Cities' debate on 24th March. Zak has wide experience of transformational change programmes and will be using the recent grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation to progress the Trust's digital offer, while the visitor sites remain closed due to Covid-19. Before joining the Trust, Zak worked at Bristol Museums & Archives with Laura Pye (now Director of National Museums Liver