Fixing the housing crisis: are garden cities the answer?
Author: Localis |
‘Fixing the housing crisis: are garden cities the answer?’
Copthorne Hotel, Birmingham, Tuesday 30th September, 13:00
Held in partnership with Land Securities
This panel speaking event discussed the potential of garden cities to solve the housing shortage currently engulfing the UK. With speakers:
· Mark Pawsey MP, PPS to Anna Soubury MP and CLG Select Committee Member
· Cllr Paul Carter CBE, Leader, Kent County Council
· Duncan Bonfield, Land Securities
Some of the Twitter coverage of the debate, using #Localishousing, included:
· “Mark Pawsey stresses benefit of developers consulting but highlights importance of getting approach and material correct. #localishousing” (@MatthewTurpin)
· “In all the 3 Leaders debates at the 2010 election only 1 Q about housing was posed. Will it be same in 2015? #localishousing” (@PhilipBarnes_)
· “Duncan Bonfield of @LandSecurities says we need long-term commitment to garden cities for more developers to invest #localishousing” (@HomeBuildersFed)
The event was covered by Building.co.uk, who reported that Land Securities were “struggling” to make the 15,000 home garden city scheme in Ebbsfleet viable:
‘Duncan Bonfield, director of corporate communications at Land Securities, told a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham this week that the firm was “scratching our head, and we’re struggling to make [the Ebbsfleet development] work.”‘
Click here to read more of Building.co.uk’s report.
More details about Localis’ 2014 fringe events can be found here.