Regional Events & Workshops

RICS Wales housing conference 2012

09:00 Registration and refreshments

09:30 Chair’s introduction
Christina Hirst,
Principal of Christina Hirst Management and Training Consultancy

09:35 The developer’s view point: highlighting the benefits of housing and growth in Wales
• Using planning to deliver growth
• Some of the problems faced by developers: focussing on viability
• Viability of development and the need to understand it: viability is deliverability
John Cottrell, Director, Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners

10:00 Housing and regeneration: the impact housing plays in regeneration
• Regeneration - providing life chances
• Bottom up: creating community vs the top down dramatic impact
• The perennial problem – discussing the housing shortage and lack of provision.
• Evaluating demographic trends and the public/private rented sector
• Assessing the Welsh Government strategy
Steve Slocombe, Regeneration Manager, Sustainable Futures, Welsh Government

10:25 Assessing the historical context of housing and the current housing situation in Wales
• The relationship between housing policy and housing development
• Estimations of current and future housing needs within Wales
Jane Mudd, Head of Department of Applied Community Science,
Cardiff Metropolitan University

10:50 Panel discussion

11:05 Refreshment break

11:30 Challenges and opportunities – Pragmatic approaches to housing delivery and regeneration
• The role of strategic housing
• Understanding housing markets
• Tackling the mismatch between supply and demand
• Maximising resources
• Whole community approaches to regeneration
Jennifer Ellis, Housing Strategy and Standards Manager
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council



11:55 The sustainability agenda and the aims of a low carbon economy
- something completely different
• Unintentional consequences of the best intentions
• Saving energy but not saving the planet
• How will our grandchildren clean up the mess
• Waste first not last
Paul Jennings, Construction Waste Programme Director,
Constructing Excellence Wales

12:20 The England Experience
• Sustainability and housing themes
Speaker from Powell Dobson on invite

12:55 Panel discussion

13:10 Lunch

14:10 Finance and housing in Wales
• The public spending context to 2018
• Twin imperatives for public infrastructure and capital investment
(i) better prioritisation (ii) new sources of finance
• Implication for housing investment
Professor Gerald Holtham,
Welsh Government’s Infrastructure Investment Advisor,
Wales Government

14:35 The planning process for housing in Wales
• What are the challenges most pressing developers ?
• How can the system change to help them across all classes of housing ?
Jane Carpenter, Planning Director, Redrow Homes

15:00 Keynote address
Huw Lewis AM, Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage,
Welsh Government

15.25 Panel discussion

15:55 Chairs summary and closing remarks

16:00 Refreshments and depart

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Thursday 21 June 2012

RICS members £100+VAT
Non members £120+VAT