National Housing and Regeneration Half-Day Conference: Northern Ireland

This half-day conference will examine how a landscape-led approach can support the delivery of housing and regeneration ambitions in Northern Ireland.

A Landscape-led approach places the landscape at the heart of decision-making from the outset of built environment projects. It encompasses:

• Placemaking: Ensuring developments strengthen community connections and improve quality of life.
• Resilience: Enhancing the resilience of places in the face of climate and nature emergencies.
• Sustainability: Underpinning the delivery of liveable places that unify policy, planning, design, and management.

By embedding landscape activity early in developments, the approach maximises economic, environmental, health, and well-being benefits for people, place, and nature.

This conference is designed for landscape professionals, developers, planners, housing providers, and local authorities.

By attending this conference, attendees will be able to:

1. Navigate Policy & Compliance: Gain essential insights into planning policy, legislation and best practice for housing and regeneration.
2. Master Sustainable Design: Understand the value of early landscape involvement, and embed a landscape-led approach to achieve better planning and design outcomes.
3. Secure Long-Term Value: Discuss how using landscape professionals can secure long-term investment for developers and local authorities
4. Networking and Future Collaborations: Connect with decision-makers and engage with professionals across the built and natural environment.
5. Enhance your skills and knowledge: This event is aligned with the LI's CPD, specifically strengthening framework competencies in planning, water management, healthy places, and place management.

Cameron Watt, Chief Executive, Alpha Housing

Cameron has been Chief Executive of Alpha Housing since 2017. Prior to this, he led the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations (NIFHA). Cameron champions good design in housing, including the HAPPI principles for later-life housing, and has led Alpha’s pioneering work in supporting nature recovery.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

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