The Developer podcast

Natascha McIntyre Hall on the vision and people-first design for Tipner West in Portsmouth, which transforms an 140-acre post-industrial peninsular, home to a Ministry of Defence firing range, into a 4,000-home, car-free neighbourhood with one million square feet of marine employment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“How much of your [property] fund is at risk from flooding, severe winds or overheating? If people can’t go to the office, they aren’t going to pay their rent,” says Alastair Mant, Head of Business Transformation, UKGBC. The opening speaker at The Developer’s Risk & Resilience conference in November 2019, Mant describes how finance is leading the charge on climate change risk-mitigation, and why t...

Selina Mason, Director of Masterplanning at Lendlease speaks to The Developer about the past and future of London’s 560-acre Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a project she’s been involved with, on and off, since 2007; first, working on the delivery of the original 2012 masterplan for the Olympic Delivery Authority, then on the post-games Transformation Masterplan for the London Legacy Development Cor...

Architects are ivory-tower idealists and developers are profit-driven pariahs, or so the cliché goes. But in this interview, they agree on at least one thing – the need for radical change. Nick Searl, Partner of Argent and Argent Related and Daniel Hajjar, Managing Principal of HOK London and Dubai talk collaboration, communication and the climate emergency. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

What kind of cultural infrastructure is needed in our cities, how do we value culture and can it be curated? From music to food, we explore the ways in which culture contributes to place, and how to help creatives nest and grow. An on-stage conversation with Emma Warren, Author of Make Some Space: Tuning into Total Refreshment Centre, Danny Keir, Global Head of Business Development for Sound Diplo...

“Liverpool is undergoing unprecedented growth in investment,” Claire Slinger, Assistant Director for Investment and Development at Liverpool City Council tells The Developer. We learn how the council unlocked plans for its stalled 100 acre Festival Gardens site, and hear about their plans to entice more than 80,000 university and college students to stay in the city after graduation. We also talk...

Dr. Patrice Derrington, who leads the prestigious real estate programme at Columbia University, tells the audience at the Festival of Place why she believes the high-stakes, fraught environment of real estate development needs a rethink, exploding some common myths about what makes places prosper along the way Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our high streets and city centres are in trouble. How should we remake them? Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance in Manhattan, Rachel Fisher, Deputy Director of Regeneration and Infrastructure at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Patricia Brown, Director of Central and Contributing Editor of The Developer share their views, learnings, and future plans....

We need a more blended approach to creating mixed communities says Anne Power, Head of LSE Housing and Communities. In her address at the Festival of Place 2019, Power draws from her professional experience working in government policy, from ten years in Thatcher’s government to working under New Labour, to point out some of placemaking's failings. Power has been involved in tackling housing and u...

Sir Stuart Lipton talks offices and place in conversation with Giles Barrie at the 2019 Festival of Place. One of the first developers to recognise the importance of place in creating large-scale urban developments, Lipton talks about the past, present, planning and future of workplace making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dan Labbad, Chief Executive of Lendlease Europe and future CEO of the Crown Estate talks to Christine Murray on stage at the Festival of Place on what he's learned working for the past 20 years at the centre of heated debate about how we redevelop UK cities: "Your license to operate comes from how you impact on communities." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How Helical with AHMM transformed an unloved and badly managed British Telecom office complex on Old Street Roundabout into a place. This classic 1960s Modernist campus has seen its former rear carpark transformed into a mews-like street. Across the complex, there are five restaurants, two coffee bars, a hotel, gym and new public spaces. The nature of the businesses based here – Farfetch and WeWor...

Without the Royal National Institute of Blind People, there’s no chance Countryside would have gained planning for private housing on the green belt; and without Countryside, RNIB would not have been able to replace their dated 1960s facility on site. So began an innovative partnership that sees the design and development of an inclusive enclave from what Cocks descried as “a cold and empty place...

Landscape architect Will Sandy and Building Centre creative director Vanessa Norwood discuss the impact Extinction Rebellion’s actions are having on the built environment and how we perceive the future of the city. Sandy is creative director at The Edible Bus Stop, a biodiverse design studio whose temporary and permanent spaces can be seen all over London. Norwood is creative director of the Build...

The Bee Network creates 75 miles of Dutch-style segregated cycle lanes and safe pedestrian crossings, and 1000 miles of walking and cycling routes in Manchester and will be accessible to 92% of the Greater Manchester population, the largest network of its kind in the UK. Nitasha Kapoor met with street design engineer Brian Deegan on designing cycling infrastructure for the northwest. Hosted on Aca...

What does a city need to foster a successful music industry? This is something Shain Shapiro knows better than anyone. His consultancy advises city governments and property developers on the cultural economy. But despite the growing profile of Sound Diplomacy’s work, however, Shapiro says “the debate is broken.” For policy to be successful, Shapiro says, officers must be agnostic to musical style....

Bonus episode: In this talk at the Roca London Gallery, Danish architect Jan Gehl discusses his extensive work creating cities for people worldwide, using psychology and architecture to support a human-centred approach to urban planning and design. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Global Generation’s Skip Garden in King’s Cross is a much-loved organic core for its development. Now co-founder Jane Riddiford has created the Paper Garden, a new incarnation at Canada Water, with the ambition of realising the power of community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Director of the Illuminated River Project, Sarah Gaventa discusses Leo Villareal’s public art project in London that will accentuate 15 bridges over the Thames. The ambitious £45m project begins with the illumination of London Bridge, Cannon Street, Southwark and Millennium Bridge, with all bridges completed by 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a call-out on Twitter, professionals from across the UK joined a conversation about child-friendly cities in the UK that developed into a meet-up at a curry house near the train station in Leeds, organised by Emma Bearman of Playful Anywhere CIC and recorded by The Developer. Here, practitioners shared their ambitions and the challenges they are facing in pursuing a child-friendly agenda. Th...

Paul Monaghan is founding partner of one of the most successful architecture practices in the UK, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Now, he's got a new role, as design champion for his hometown of Liverpool, with a mandate to get design quality on the agenda. We talk about urban redevelopment in the UK: the good, the bad and the uniquely Scouse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

With a need for new homes and under pressure from council cuts, Croydon Council established Brick by Brick in 2016, a limited company that would tackle the housing crisis across the borough. The ambition was to build 2000 new homes on 50 sites. We take a walk with Chloe Phelps, Head of Design for Brick by Brick to visit some of the first fruits of this ambitious programme Hosted on Acast. See acas...

What is the social value of the high street? We meet Holly Lewis, co-founder of architecture and urbanism practice We Made That, for a walk down the high street and a chat about ‘High Streets for All’, a research study commissioned by the Greater London Authority to unpick the contribution of London's high streets to the city. Unexpected results include that half of people on the high streets are...

Roger Madelin, Head of Canada Water for British Land and maverick of place takes us on a whirlwind tour of his new major project in this double episode. We travel up a tower and across the site, followed by Madelin's stream-of-consciousness rap in a noisy cafe where he talks risk, planning policy, the art of stuff, the future of Southwark, Section 106, the axing of SureStart and why we should walk...

In part two of this interview, we take a deeper dive into Wembley Park. From underground vacuums for garbage, to dog parks and community events, Angus Dodd, CEO of developer Quintain, takes us on this walking tour around the unfinished development Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.