Our second summer housing round table at UCL Here East
Our second summer housing research round table looks at 'building better, building beautiful' following the government's insistence that new planning and design should be of the highest quality. It is being held at UCL's new campus at HereEast and will inform our debate at our larger September forum on city planning which takes place on the Greenwich Peninsula. Approaches to redesigning and regenerating shopping centres and retail parks for residential use will be discussed.
Bulldoze or retrofit? Housing briefings at WYG
This week, Future Cities Forum discussed the urban housing dilemma: bulldoze or retrofit? To debate this, senior experts from local authorities, engineering, architecture and the mortgage industry gathered, to talk about the economics of new build housing and retrofitting existing stock for a low carbon city. The research round table took place at WYG Group’s (now a Tetra Tech Company) London offices at One Angel Court. WYG has been appointed alongside 12 technical specialist