Retail & Hospitality

16 July 2024

Extended stay: hotel transformations

This webinar showcased a selection of London's adaptive reuse projects, highlighting how existing buildings are being repurposed and transformed into new hotels.

Retail & Hospitality

26 April 2023

Health on the high street

The high street is everchanging. Can it also adapt to integrate essential health and wellbeing facilities, to serve the local community, economy and place?

Retail & Hospitality

24 March 2022

How PDR impacts living standards

In this webinar we hear from key experts debating the effects PDR will have on our future highstreets and they will provide insights to how the change in policy will impact wellbeing.

Retail & Hospitality

27 April 2021

The buyers are back in town

Brian Bickell, CEO of Shaftesbury, talks to Peter Murray about the company’s portfolio of ‘villages’ in the West End of London around Carnaby Street, Seven Dials, Chinatown, Long Acre and Covent Garde...

Retail & Hospitality

27 April 2021

High street champion

Fiona Scott of Gort Scott Architects is one of the Mayor’s Design Advocates. She talks to Peter Murray about the report she produced for the Mayor on high streets and town centres as well as well as a...

Retail & Hospitality

26 March 2021

Pop-up potential: the future of retail on high streets

This recording from our Retail & Hospitality Breakfast Talk presents ideas for the future of retail on London’s high streets, learning from the challenges of the past year.

Retail & Hospitality

19 February 2021

Highline winners

Simon Pitkeathley reveals the winning practice for the Camden Highline. The CEO of Camden Unlimited, the Camden Collective and the Camden Highline project, talks to Peter Murray about his role in Lond...

Retail & Hospitality

29 January 2021

Creating resilience

“I’m optimistic about high streets, they are incredibly resilient,” says Holly Lewis of We Made That. She tells Peter Murray that there is something about lots of small units next to each other. “They...

Retail & Hospitality

18 December 2020

The new face of Regent Street

This NLA Breakfast Talk presented the plans to refresh Regent Street that are currently underway to improve this key historic street of the West End.

Retail & Hospitality

19 August 2020

Saving the centre

Jace Tyrrell is Chief Executive of the New West End Company, the business improvement district which covers Oxford, Bond and Regent Streets. He discusses strategies to alleviate threats to the West En...

Retail & Hospitality

07 July 2020

Webinar: Build Back Better, rethinking the high street

This Pecha Kucha hears from built environment leaders about ideas for rebooting retail and hospitality environments and reshape the future of our high streets.

Retail & Hospitality

18 May 2020

Restaurants in the street – Soho’s Summer Festival

Boss of Soho Estates John James talks to Peter Murray about the effect of COVID-19 on Soho’s hospitality industry, on his role to ‘save the area’ and about the Soho Summer Festival when restaurants wi...