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Beautiful and Safe High Streets - an Office for Place webinar

What is the role of place quality in creating and stewarding prosperous and safe high streets?

Prosperous places tend to be safe places. What is the best path to prosperous and busy high streets with low anti-social behaviour?

Please join this Office for Place webinar on 7 June at 3.30pm to discuss the relative importance of land ownership, building design, local council leadership, community action, and street redesign in supporting and regenerating high streets and town centres to be prosperous, popular and safe.

This event will be chaired by Nicholas Boys Smith (Chair, Office for Place Advisory Board), with the following speakers:

  • Caroline Simpson (Chief Executive, Stockport Council)
  • Mark Robinson (Chair, High Streets Task Force)
  • Paul Tebbitt (Planning Policy Manager, Mansfield Council)
  • Annie Keegan (Associate Director, PJA, from the Mansfield Design Code Pathfinder team)
  • Scott Adams (Director - Urban Design, BPTW)

This event is taking place online, using Microsoft Teams. You will be sent a link ahead of the event happening.

This event is aimed at anyone with an interest in planning, design, regeneration, development, or related sectors, working in the public, private or third sector. All welcome!

Published 30 May 2023