New London Architecture

Suburban Taskforce – report launch

Talk

Wednesday 04 May 2022
10:00 - 11:30

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. 
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for London's Planning and Built Environmentwas established in 2015 by The London Society, which provides the secretariat in partnership with New London Architecture and Local Dialogue. Chaired by Rupa Huq MP, it focuses on the key issues facing London and its changing shape.
 
 

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


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