Equipping placemakers to shape a thriving and equitable city
Bringing its focus on housing and public-private partnerships, Montagu Evans rejoins Future of London as a core sponsor. We talk to partners Oliver Maury and Jenny Rydon about the firm’s new priorities. Montagu Evans kicked off the business year with new management and a focus on four priority areas. The … Read more
Following the Mayor’s London Growth Plan, we highlight the opportunity for boroughs and their partners to take an inclusion-first approach to the capital’s major growth sectors such as life sciences. As London plans for growth, decision-makers should take an “inclusion-first” approach to ensure that economic development benefits every community, according … Read more
In an extract from our recent affordable housing report, Will Seamer of Montagu Evans argues that more clarity and flexibility of government policy are needed to meet demand. It might sound like a long way off but 2023 is only seven years away. So we haven’t got time to totally … Read more
We all know we need to work harder to engage young people in our projects, but how do we do it? Findings from our Engaging Young Londoners event give some key principles to consider.
The conference closed with a session looking at how affordable housing might look by 2030 – and the positive impact that ‘getting housing right’ would have on health, wellbeing, economic development and climate change.
Following the launch of our Healthy neighbourhoods working together report, we put forward some of the key actions we can all take to improve collaboration with health. Drawing on expert insight from our report launch speakers, we outline useful frameworks and ideas we can all use.
Our Building Recovery Conference sought to respond directly to the challenges the built environment sector is facing to create a fair and inclusive recovery from Covid. This summary provides the highlights and some practical tips for those wanting to have an impact on inequalities.
Launched today, the Building recovery: closing the gap insights report outlines the challenges of a fair recovery. Bringing together our research to date, it highlights the urgent priorities for city makers to address if we are to use recovery to create more equal urban environments.
In this Building recovery case study, we take a look at the award-winning Deptford Lounge transformation from Pollard Thomas Edwards and how this innovative approach to co-location is relevant in Covid-19 recovery as we seek to address widening inequalities within reduced budgets.
The opening webinar of FoL’s Healthy neighbourhoods: working together programme sought to highlight the most pressing issues between the built environment and health and promote more efficient collaboration, creative thinking and sharing of resources to have a bigger impact on health inequalities.
As part of our Building recovery programme, this roundtable aimed to highlight the key challenges facing the sector when it comes to prioritising fairness in recovery. Our multi-disciplinary panel gave their reflections on the sector’s urgent priorities with key themes around procurement, diversity and skills gaps.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale and complexity of climate emergency. Future of London’s Achieving Net Zero report sets out the active role we can all play and provides practical recommendations to respond to climate change.