New London Architecture

RePower London Launch

Networking

Wednesday 16 October 2024
18:15 - 20:15

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Free

As part of the NLA Lates series, join us for the launch of our latest report, RePower London, exploring a place-based approach to decarbonising infrastructure.
From Victorian era sewers and train lines to mediaeval streets and waterways, London’s infrastructure is ageing and has suffered from a chronic lack of investment over recent decades. Once a source of national pride, it is fast becoming a key limiter of growth, stymying the capital's ability to meet the compounding challenges of the housing crisis, a changing climate, the cost of living and the economic uncertainty. 
 
On this evening, we launch RePower London, our latest research report, which calls for a place-based, people-centric approach to delivering infrastructure, contemplating the modal shift to cleaner energy. The next generation of infrastructure may look very different, with site-specific solutions delivered in local contexts where it can serve multiple functions in a symbiotic way, from performing a placemaking role to connecting people to nature and improving climate resilience. 
 
The election of a new Labour government this year has pushed the issue of Infrastructure to national significance with a key Labour manifesto pledge being to “Make Britain a clean energy superpower”, potentially heralding shifts through national policy and dedicated bodies to oversee power, rail and infrastructure. 
 
As the Labour government gets to work to ‘rebuild Britain’, join us for the launch of RePower London, which sets out key recommendations from the built environment industry to deliver infrastructure that will once again be celebrated as civic amenity.

Programme

18:15    
Arrivals 
 
18:45    
Welcome from Chair
Catherine Staniland, Director, NLA
 
18:50    
Keynote
Cllr Kieron Williams, Leader, Southwark Council, and Chair, London Councils Transport and Environment Committee
 
19:05    
Networking
 
20:15    
Close

Speaker biographies

Cllr Kieron Williams

Leader of Southwark Council and Chair of Central London Forward, Chair and London Councils’ Transport and Environment Committee, London Borough of Southwark

Catherine Staniland

Director, New London Architecture


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Venue

The London Centre
3 Aldermanbury
London
EC2V 7HH

Accessibility

There are 4 steps to the main entrance, with a level access entrance via the Guildhall West Wing approximately 200 feet away. There are toilets and accessible toilets via stairs or a lift to the lower ground floor. If you would like more information, or have any access requirements, please let us know what these are and how we can best accommodate these by emailing events@nla.london.

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