Our newly constituted panel is keen to progress work on inclusivity and carbon zero in specialist research/R&D buildings from the previous cycle whilst working towards some new agenda items as directed by the NLA and arrived at through our own debate.

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We are keen to develop specific research questions, particularly given the leadership roles that some of our panel have in innovation district research programmes working at national/international level – where we are well placed to identify specific areas that it may be particularly helpful for key London stakeholders to understand better.  We very much feel that London has a role to play in ensuring that the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, Cambridge works well as a whole, as a global cluster of excellence in innovation; and that it can contribute positively to the levelling up agenda if it can utilise its assets and its people more fully for the benefit of the country.

Ancillary issues raised by panel members for us to be alert to include data collection and dissemination, re-use of retail space for R&D use, access to spaces that help foster collaboration, ground floor uses of buildings and public realm that help the inclusivity agenda, the benefits that may flow from identifying issues that may threaten vitality of London districts, and the benefits that may flow from delivering a range of uses in a location.