Associate Director at Gardiner & Theobald Jessica Pennell, discusses how the use of mass timber could help address the UK’s climate emergency, helping to support a sustainable and polycentric London.
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Partner at Trowers & Hamlins, Julien Allen explores how the leisure sector and hospitality industry will respond to the up-and-coming polycentres around outer and central London.
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Rosanna Sterry, Principal Commercial Planner at Transport for London, discusses the importance of developing around transport nodes in the city unlocking new opportunities for town centres across London, supporting the 15-minute neighbourhood concept.
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John Forrester, President of Cushman & Wakefield, spotlights Brent Cross Town as a new ‘centre’ in the making.
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Partner at Deloitte Real Estate, Simon Bedford explores the impact of the pandemic on our urban landscape.
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Sophie Bowerman, Associate Partner at Axiom Architects, reflects on the priorities needed to achieve sustainable and multipurpose network of neighbourhoods.
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At JLL, we are confident that our city centres will remain the engine of growth. The urbanisation of recent decades will not reverse, but there will be significant changes, and we will see winners and losers emerge.
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“Social distancing is the antithesis of city life!” proclaimed Tony Travers, our modern-day Dr Johnson and staunch defender of all that is great about London even in these strained pandemic times, calling for a range of post-COVID ‘welcome back’ events incorporating the arts and public spaces.
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Hard-hit boroughs across London are digging deep to unlock investment to drive growth, powered by a new zest for collaboration and partnerships with the private and voluntary sectors they forged during lockdown. So said local authority politicians including Waltham Forest council leader Cllr Clare Coghill at London: driving growth, the final session in this year’s LREF Investment Summit last week.
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London is set to bounce back ‘very, very strongly’ in the third quarter of this year but should plan recovery events to lure back its temporarily dwindled population, avoid knee-jerk planning responses to its ailing high streets and instead treat them like ‘market stalls’ that are able to respond and adapt at pace.
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