We took the current round of Future London Leaders on a trip around the Royal Docks. The buffeting winds and driving rain, accentuated by the riverside location, were less than favourable conditions for viewing an area still very much in transition – for most people, the Docks are that strange part of London one travels through en route to the … [Read more...]
Site visit – Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea
December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Future of London arranged a visit to Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea on 29 November for our members. We began with an introduction to the area by Keith Trotter from the Nine Elms Delivery Team, set up to support the complex partnership involved in regenerating the area. Identified as an Opportunity Area in the 2003 London Plan, a number of significant … [Read more...]
Site visit – Olympic Park
November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Read on for Simon Cavanagh's report of the Future London Leaders visit to the Olympic park on 28 October: "It’s Friday afternoon in late October and I am being driven around the Olympic site with my Future London Leaders colleagues. The experience is strangely akin to the first act of Jurassic Park. Every couple of minutes brings a preview of … [Read more...]
Future London Leaders Launch
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We officially launched the third round of the Future London Leaders programme last night with an evening reception. All the candidates were able to attend, along with some of the mentors that will be providing one-to-one support throughout the programme. We also had a couple of alumni from previous rounds that were able to share some individual … [Read more...]
Olympic Park site visit
June 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
On a day of dramatic downpours accompanied by thunder and lightening in an otherwise unprecedentedly dry and sunny Spring, Future of London were taken on a tour of the Olympic Park by Stephen Wells, Operations Director of Mace. Mace are part of a partnership delivery vehicle for the Olympic Site called CLM (standing for the three companies … [Read more...]
Goodbye Future London Leaders 1
June 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We marked the close of the first cohort of our Future London Leaders with a get together at Southwark Council at the end of May. Over the last year, 12 people working in regeneration and housing from across London have been to masterclasses, site visits, networking events, participated in our annual conference, and spent a year being mentored … [Read more...]
Regenerating New Southgate
March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The regeneration of Ladderswood is one of the key projects in the New Southgate masterplan which was adopted in February of this year (2011). The visit was on a bright and sunny day and many attending where principally from other boroughs. The site visit started with a walk around, followed by a presentation by Suzanne Johnson from the Planning … [Read more...]
Future London Leaders – Project Tracker
March 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We joined Urban Initiatives for a knowledge sharing session yesterday, where six of our Future London Leaders - Sharon Strutt, Julia Williams, Shelley Browne, Jodie Yandall, Tom Dewey, Tom King - presented the findings from their work tracking three of London's live major projects. See their presentations from the event below. For more work from … [Read more...]
The Vision of The Royal Docks
March 2, 2011 By 1 Comment
For someone who hasn’t ventured into this corner of East London before, I wasn’t sure what to expect. For many years we’ve been hearing about master plans and grand designs to regenerate these parts, most of which came to nothing. As a result, my “default” position as I entered Newham Council offices on that morning was to be a bit … [Read more...]
Digital economy seminar
January 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today I had the opportunity to hear some lively debate around the subject of the digital economy driving regeneration in the Thames Gateway hosted by Thames Gateway London Partnership (TGLP). Illustrious names such as Will Hutton and Chairs Lord Falconer, and Chief Executive of TGLP, Ros Dunn, led an informative debate focusing on London and east … [Read more...]
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