Real estate: the next 100 years
At a Bartlett Real Estate Institute event with FoL involvement, panellists discussed possibilities for real estate over the next century. This Spotlight summarises the event.
Making the Most of London’s Waterways report launch
Launched on 11 December, the Making the Most of London’s Waterways report compiles findings and case studies from FoL’s year-long project.
Report launch: Foundations for Community-Led Housing
Following an eight-month action learning programme involving 6 events and 300+ participants, Future of London launched its hotly-tipped Foundations for Community-led Housing report to a packed house on 3 December. Here we share launch highlights from speakers including keynote Rokhsana Fiaz, Mayor of Newham.
Paying for Public Projects: alternative sources roundtable
Several alternative funding/financing sources are coming onto the radar. Varying in scope – from small-scale to multi-million-pound investments – these could be viable complements or substitutes to traditional sources.
Paying for Public Projects: private sources roundtable
The second of three roundtables in FoL’s ‘Paying for Public Projects’ programme convened cross-sector experts to discuss the merits and risks of current private sources of funding and financing for delivering regeneration, housing, and local-scale infrastructure schemes.
Planning ahead: Delivering design-led pre-applications
Drawing on research carried out for Public Practice during a year-long placement in LB Havering, Rachel Hearn reflects on the role pre-apps can play in securing good design, the challenges local authorities and applicants face when it comes to pre-apps, and how these services could be improved for all.
Alumni breakfast briefing: Place leadership
LB Redbridge Chief Exec Andy Donald argues that councils need to redefine their role as leaders of placemaking. At November’s breakfast briefing, he invited alumni to think of councils as conveners: providing a platform to bring stakeholders together and establishing a ‘low floor, high ceiling’ that sets the tone for collaboration and co-production in shaping our neighbourhoods.
Spotlight: Mapping the future of London
Spotlight by Leaders Plus alumna Rebecca Lee of PTE, whose growing obsession with better, more collaborative digital mapping led her and FoL’s Lisa Taylor to organise the 9th Dec #MapLondon conference.
Economic-led regeneration: how do we measure success?
How do we measure the success of a place when compared to its surrounding neighbourhood or city-wide economy? FoL Alumni and invited guests came together to explore this question and consider how some of London’s most high-profile regeneration projects perform against a more holistic view of placemaking.
Conference: Embedding Social Value
London’s intensifying needs, budget constraints and charged public mood are driving increasingly defined requirements for social value within the procurement process. Seven years on from the Social Value Act, there’s significant variance in the approaches to and strength of uptake, with authorities in the Midlands and the North leading the … Read more