FUTURE CITIES FORUM

We are very pleased to welcome Pam Alexander OBE - who is an Ambassador on the London Mayor's Cultural Leadership Board - to our forum discussions at City Hall on 26th June. Pam is a board member of the London Legacy Development Corporation, of the Connected Places Catapult and Chair of Commonplace, providing open, digital community engagement. She is on the Advisory board of the London Festival of Architecture. Until recently, Pam was Chair of Covent Garden Market Authority

We are delighted that the GLA's Chief Resilience Officer, Dr Fiona Twycross, will be speaking at our 'Healthy Cities ' forum on 30th January 2018 at Apothecaries' Hall, London. Healthy Cities are indeed resilient cities and our forum will look at how London and the UK, is meeting the housing needs for a diverse population, the strains on current infrastructure in the capital and the development of core train lines for the Northern Powerhouse along with how our health servic

We have invited Grimshaw's Ben Heath who has a wealth of experience in designing for sports-led regeneration, to join WYG's Planning Director Paula Carney at Future Cities Forum, 'City Place Making' in London on 10th October. Ben is currently working on the Bath rugby stadium redevelopment which includes major public realm improvements along Bath riverside. The project is of high importance for the development of the wider city. Ben also led the redevelopment of the Number On

At our next Future Cities Forum on 10th October we will be hearing from Debbie Jackson, the Assistant Director for Regeneration and Economic Development at the Greater London Authority, and we are delighted that she will be speaking on our first panel of the morning, looking at economic growth and place-making for the high street. The panel discussion - which will be held at the Westworks, White City Place, W12 - will complement the opening presentation by Rachel Fisher, Dep