Estates Gazette Political Summit

Date: 28/11/2007

Speakers:

Dermot Finch will speak on the topic of Regional Government and paying for development.

The EG Political Summit addressd the biggest issues affecting the property industry.

Speakers included:

  • Paul Holmes MP
  • Grant Shapps MP
  • Nick Shattock, Director, Quintain Estates
  • David Lock CBE, Chairman of the Town & Country Planning Association
  • Sir Nigel Thompson, Chairman, CPRE
  • Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, President, Country Land and Business
  • Ruth Davison, Director of Campaigns & Neighbourhoods, National Housing Federation
  • Dermot Finch, Director , Centre for Cities
  • John Gummer, MP, Conservative Party policy advisor
  • Clive Betts, MP, Labour, Chairman, the All Party Urban Development Group

Topics to be covered included:

  • What will Gordon Brown’s new government or David Cameron’s administration do for UK property?
  • Tackling Britain’s house building crisis
  • The drive to build green
  • The future for regeneration in the UK
  • PGS, Roof tax or section 106: What should the new government do about development tax?
  • Regional development – Where to next?

More information here.