Keynote Speaker

Brandon Lewis MP
Minister of State for Housing and
Planning at the Department for
Communities and Local Government 

The housing crisis is one of the most pressing economic issues facing the UK today. If a solution is to be found, it will require some radical new thinking and for the main players involved in the market – government, local authorities, homebuilders, housing associations, institutional investors and the financial community – to come together to discuss how the huge gap between supply and demand can be bridged. As the recently-published National Productivity Plan made clear, the Government’s target of building an additional 275,000 homes per year and the pledge to deliver an additional 275,000 affordable homes by 2020 will only be achieved if councils play a full part in delivery through partnerships and by building on their own account. The private sector alone will not deliver on the scale required.
  
This highly topical summit explores how best councils and the private sector can work together to meet the Government’s ambitious targets.

Why you should attend this summit

Hear from the leading experts from different backgrounds discussing the key issues, including: 

• Brandon Lewis MP, Minister of State for Planning and Housing, on how the Government’s housing policy will help deliver its homebuilding targets
• Andy Rose, CEO, Homes & Communities Agency, on how the HCA can support innovative partnerships between councils and the private sector
• Judith Armitt, CEO, Local Partnerships, on how devolution and the rise of city regions will affect housing delivery
• Keith House, Leader, Eastleigh Borough Council, on how councils can act as ‘housing enablers’ and what this means in practice
• Richard Blakeway, Deputy Mayor of London for Housing, Land & Property, on the need for new delivery models to address the housing crisis in London
  
  

Many other leading experts on a range of key issues, including:

• The potential for direct commissioning
• Joint ventures structures for housebuilding
• Case studies on recent innovative housing delivery models
• How to attract institutional investment into the private sector rented market
  
   

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