22 March 2023
Phoenix Leicester
Conference programme - 22 March 2023
07.30 - 08.30 Running Tour of Leicester's Active Travel Infrastructure: Register here
09.00
Registration opens: Tea & coffee served in the exhibition area
09.30
10.00
Main Auditorium (Screen 1)
Welcome and morning plenary
Chair: Daniel Pearman, City Transport Director, Leicester City Council
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, Development and Transportation, Leicester City Council
Nicholas Boys Smith, Chair, Office for Place and Founding Director, Create Streets
Jenny Thomas, Head of Built Environment, Department of Levelling Up, Homes and Communities
Chris Harrison, Regional Director, Project Centre
11.15
Morning break: Tea & coffee served in the exhibition area
11.45
Main Auditorium (Screen 1)
City centre regeneration
Chair: Mike Dalzell, Director of Tourism, Culture and Investment, Leicester City Council
Living spaces: a vital commercial economy
Sarah Harrison, Leicester City Centre Director
Re-stitching the city
Tom Noble, Urban Designer, Create Streets
Levelling up: Leicester rail station regeneration
David Beale, Development Manager, Leicester City Council
Creative collaboration in Leicester
Izzy Hoskins, Co-Founder, GraffWerk
Room 1 (Screen 3)
Learning from Delft: an active travel success story
Chair: Andy Salkeld, Planning, Transportation & Economic Development, Leicester City Council
Delft, a city of 100,000 in the western Netherlands, has created an extensive cycling infrastructure and discouraged private cars from entering large parts of the city centre. This workshop will build on a Sustrans-led study tour to Delft in 2022, which aimed to give politicians direct knowledge and experience of what can be achieved – in terms of active travel – if different choices are made around transport
Speakers:
Learning by seeing
Clare Maltby, Director, England Midlands and East, Sustrans and study tour host
Why the Dutch approach works...
Lotte Rijsman, Mobility Advisor, Royal HaskoningDHV
Panel discussion & audience Q and A with study tour participants
Cllr Adam Clarke, Deputy City Mayor for Environment & Transportation, Leicester City Council
Cllr Mrs Lana Hempsall, Member Chamption for Sustainable Transport, Norfolk County Council
Cllr Liz Clements,
Bournville and Cotteridge
Keith Morgan,
Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Manager, Nottingham City Council
Adam Tranter, Walking & Cycling Commissioner, West Midlands Combined Authority
Room 2 (Screen 4)
Managing future mobility
Chair: Janet Hudson, Behaviour Change Manager, Leicester City Council
Accelerating shared transport
Matthew Ledbury, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer,
CoMoUK
Making cycling e-asier
Jenny Box, Deputy Director of Behaviour Change, Cycling UK
Maximising benefits of CAVs (current and future)
Jorgen Pedersen, Director for Transport Technology, Systra
Promoting modal shift at the local level
Silviya Barratt, Director of Policy and Research, Campaign for Better Transport
13.00
Lunch break: Lunch served in the exhibition area
14.00
Main Auditorium (Screen 1)
Monitoring and evaluation
Chair: Martin Fletcher, Head of Highways, Leicester City Council
Why M&E shouldn’t be bottom of your to do list
Beth Hiblin, Associate, Transport for Quality of Life
Data-driven kerbside strategy development, Lambeth Kerbside Strategy Case Study
Agnese Polonara, Senior Consultant, Systra, and
Simon Phillips
Assistant Director for Sustainable Development and Climate Change Response, London Borough of Lambeth
City-wide monitoring of transport networks
Charlie Richards,
Business Development Manager, VivaCity
How healthy street design impacts behaviour: research from The Avenues public realm project
Becki Cox, Researcher, University of Glasgow
Room 1 (Screen 3)
Civilised and healthy streets
Chair: Sally Slade, Transport Strategy, Leicester City Council
Reducing health inequalities
Ivan Browne, Director of Public Health & Rob Howard, Consultant in
Public Health, Leicester City Council
Delivering walkable
neighbourhoods
Emily Walsh, Associate Director, Systra
The multi-timed city
Esther Kurland, Director, Urban Design London
Creating people-centric designing for communities
Stefano Scarano, Principal Landscape Architect, Project Centre
Making street design accessible to anyone
Jon Little, co-founder, BetaStreets
Room 2 (Screen 4)
Building in vitality and viability
Chair: Daniel Pearman, City Transport Director, Leicester City Council
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, Director, ITP
Rethinking funding policies to support place
David Milner, Deputy Director, Create Streets
The BID model and how – and what – it delivers
Simon Jenner, Director. Leicester Business Improvement District (BID)
15.30
Afternoon break: Tea & coffee served in the exhibition area
16.00
Main Auditorium (Screen 1)
Closing plenary: practical carbon reduction planning panel
Many local authorities have declared a climate emergency but need detailed information to support the practical implementation of climate action plans, air quality improvements and adaptation
Chair: Cllr Adam Clarke, Deputy Mayor, City of Leicester
Graham Grant, Director of Planning, Active Travel England
Jo Barnes, Associate Professor of Clean Air, University of the West of England
David Connolly, Director of New Mobility, Systra
17.15
Networking drinks in the event space, The Phoenix
