In this APPG meeting we will hear from the team behind the Suburban Taskforce on their findings and recommendations.
The ‘Suburban Taskforce’ was established in 2020 to help us understand what ‘suburban’ really means in modern Britain. It is formed by a cross-party group of politicians who have come together with experts from a range of backgrounds to shine a light on the suburbs to identify and secure the clear, long-term and properly resourced policies needed to support thriving, sustainable and inclusive suburban areas.
The Taskforce is pleased to present a report that reviews the current estate of the English suburbs and includes recommendations which focus on the ways our suburbs are understood and to ensure that the change within them is meaningful. How should we understand and manage change within the suburbs? How can we increase public engagement in the planning process of suburban areas?
In this APPG meeting we will hear from the team behind the Suburban Taskforce on their findings and recommendations.
Programme
10:00 Welcome from Chair
Rupa Huq, Member of Parliament for Ealing Central & Acton
10:05 Welcome from the Secretariat
Peter Murray OBE, Trustee, The London Society; Curator-in-Chief, New London Architecture
10:10 A Suburban Taskforce
Jonathan Manns, Senior Director, Head of Wellington, Head of Strategic Consultancy, New Zealand, JLL
Dr Lucy Natarajan, Associate Professor, The Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment
10:20 Respondents
Richard Blyth, Head of Policy Practice & Research, Royal Town Planning Institute
Prof David Gilbert, Professor of Urban and Historical Geography, The Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities
Dr Paul Watt, Professor of Urban Studies, Department of Geography, Birkbeck University
Nicholas Falk, Executive Director, URBED
10:45 Panel discussion
11:05 Q&A – MPs
11:30 End
Speaker biographies
Peter Murray OBE
Co-Founder, NLA
Rupa Huq
MP, LB Ealing Central and Acton
Jonathan Manns
Board Director, Head of Planning & Development, Rockwell
Dr Lucy Natarajan
Associate Professor, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London
David Gilbert
Professor of Urban and Historical Geography, The Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities
Paul Watt
Professor of Urban Studies, Department of Geography, Birkbeck University