22 March 2023
Phoenix Leicester
Conference programme - 22 March 2023
Please note that the programme is currently under development. If you have enquiries, please contact Juliana O'Rourke.
09.00
Registration opens: Tea & coffee served in the exhibition area
09.30
Main Auditorium
Welcome and morning plenary
Connecting Leicester – 10 years of Transformational Change
Sir Peter Soulsby, City Mayor, Leicester City Council
Opening session: Levelling Up, growth and boosting productivity
Andrew L Smith, Director of Planning, Transportation and Economic Development, Leicester City Council
Chris Harrison, Transportation, Marston Holdings and Managing Director of Marston's design and engineering consultancy, Project Centre
Nicholas Boys Smith, Chair, Office for Place and Founding Director, Create Streets (invited)
Further speakers to be announced...
11.00
Morning break: Tea & coffee served in the exhibition area
11.30
Main Auditorium
City centre regeneration
Sarah Harrison, Leicester City Centre Director
Izzy Hoskins,Co-Founder, GraffWerk
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire case study: Speaker from Project Centre
Further speakers to be announced...
Room 1
Transforming Cities Fund roundtable
Led by Andrew L Smith, Director of Planning, Transportation and Economic Development, Leicester City Council
With invited TCF city representatives
Room 2
Managing future mobility
Chair: Janet Hudson, Behaviour Change Manager, Leicester City Council
Antonia Roberts, Deputy Chief Executive, CoMoUK
Jenny Box, Deputy Director of Behaviour Change, Cycling UK
Maximising benefits of CAVs (current and future)
Jorgen Pedersen, Director for Transport Technology, Systra
Esther Kurland, Director, Urban Design London: the multi-timed city
13.00
Lunch break: Lunch served in the exhibition area
14.00
Main Auditorium
Monitoring and evaluation
Collecting the right data: make the case for funding
Beth Hiblin / Sally Cairns, Transport for Quality of Life (TCF national evaluation Project Manager and Research Director)
Nick Ruxton Boyle, Director of Environment, Marston Holdings / Project Centre
Monitoring the impacts of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Agnese Polonara, Senior Consultant, Systra and LB Lambeth
Room 1
Civilised and healthy streets
Chair: Sally Slade, Transport Strategy, Leicester City Council
Ivan Browne, Director of Public Health, Leicester
City Council
Healthy Streets travel planning
GavinMcLaughlin, Principal Planner, Transport for London
Delivering walkable
neighbourhoods
Emily Walsh, Associate Director, Systra
Room 2
Sustainable funding
Simon Jenner, Director. Leicester Business Improvement District (BID)
Transport Strategy Optimiser
Alex Walton, Director, Arcadis
It’s all ‘in the mix’ – funding development and delivery of transformative urban transport network improvements
Neil Taylor, Managing Director, ITP
15.30
Afternoon break: Tea & coffee served in the exhibition area
16.00
Main Auditorium
Closing plenary: practical carbon reduction planning
Many local authorities have declared a climate emergency but need detailed information to support the practical implementation of climate action plans
Chair: Cllr Adam Clarke, Deputy Mayor, City of Leicester
Graham Grant, Director of Planning, Active Travel England
Jason Torrance, Interim Chief Executive, UK 100 (invited)
Jo Barnes, Associate Professor of Clean Air, University of the West of England (invited)
David Connolly, Director of Technical Development, Systra
17.30
Event close
