Events

Seminar: The Future of Regeneration Finance
20 March 2009, Leeds Town Hall

Downloads:

Regeneration Finance Seminar Programme 20March09.pdf
Invitation

Overview

The current credit crisis is having a profound impact on the housing, regeneration and development industry with many schemes now on hold or abandoned altogether. As investor’s attitudes and appetites towards risk and their investment criteria change, there is no doubt that private finance for regeneration will be more difficult to secure in the future.

This event, hosted by The Northern Way Private Investment Commission, will provide an opportunity to discuss the opportunities for maintaining momentum for regeneration finance in future new conditions in the recovery phase and beyond.

This independent Commission was established to identify actions for increasing the flow of private sector investment in the North of England, looking beyond the current economic challenges to the recovery phase and beyond. The Commission, made up of experts in various fields from across the private sector, brings a new private sector perspective to the challenges facing regeneration professionals through globalisation and the mobility of factors of production. The Commission offers new ideas on ways of engaging and
attracting the private sector and new market entrants in a changing economic environment over the medium and longer term.

The event will explore some of the issues raised in the Commission’s interim Issue Paper, Financing the long-term future of the regions including:

• What will the future new conditions look like? – we can no longer take for granted
the market characteristics of the last few years which have witnessed particularly
supportive economic conditions for investors and regeneration professionals.

• What will the new models of regeneration finance look like in the future?
Previous models of residential-led regeneration will prove more challenging, and we may need to look for new models and a wider range of market participants.

• How can we encourage more pro-business local leadership? – To compete
internationally with the most successful cities, public bodies need to work across a broader economic geography to provide an investment offer on a scale required to attract large scale investors.

• How can we address the long term needs of the North’s housing market? – The
North needs a new approach focussed on improvement to the quality and diversity of the overall housing offer with investment supporting a clear vision across a broader economic geography.

Audience

Regeneration professionals, institutional investors, developers, local government,
regional development agencies

Programme

14:45 Arrival and Registration

15:00 Welcome

15:10 Presentation: The impact of the credit crunch on regeneration

Professor Michael Parkinson, Liverpool John Moores University

15:25 Presentation: Regeneration – issues and opportunities in the
recovery phase and beyond

Felicity Goodey, Private Investment Commission and Chair Salford URC

15:40 Presentation: A private sector perspective

David Roberts, Deputy Chief Executive, Igloo

15:50 Panel Discussion

Felicity Goodey (Chair)

Kevan Carrick, commercial and policy spokesman for RICS North East
and principal of JK Property Consultants LLP

Andrew Lewis, Director, The Northern Way

David Curtis, Regional Director, Homes and Communities Agency

Phil Holt, Director, Deloitte

16:10 Questions and Responses

16:15 Facilitated table discussions (tea/coffee available)

16:45 Feedback

16:55 Closing Remarks

Felicity Goodey

17:00 Close

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