Current events are at JustSpace.org.uk/events

Events between May 2025 and April 2026 are missing – the period in which this web site was under revision.

The following events are archived on this page.

May 3rd 2025 webinar on whether speeding up planning decisions would get the right developments in the right places (national scope). Good speakers at Community Planning Alliance https://mailchi.mp/51680b153fe1/community-planning-alliance-new-website-social-media-6745136

May 1 1500h Debating Post-growth futures at the Bartlett UCL. Details and free booking https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2025/may/debating-post-growth-futures

1 April at 5pm. Free Webinar: Planning Inquiries and Judicial Reviews: a webinar for community groups. Community Planning Alliance.​ No booking, Just click on the link here when the even is starting https://www.communityplanningalliance.org/events-calendar.html

Just Space members meeting 27 March, half on new constitution for Just Space and half on preparations for the next London Plan – on housing and all the other issues. at 31 Leigh Street WC1H 9 EP 6-8pm

We are livestreaming with CPRELondon on 27 March lunchtime on how government hasn’t got to grips with London’s housing crises. Free at https://cpre-london.eventcube.io/events/71735/is-government-taking-londons-housing-crisis-seriously/

Housing lobby of parliament 1100 at Old Palace Yard Wed 26 March.

Thursday 13 March 1800h free public lecture at UCL Dr Ben Clifford on the impact of de-regulation in office to housing changes of use. Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-planning-deregulations-consequences-tickets-1142342259449 but just turn up if it’s full. 1-19 Torrington Place just off Tottenham Court Road.

University of East London’s Housing Knowledge Exchange Unit holds the first of 3 seminars online on Wednesday 5th March 2025 at 1. – to 2.30 and will explore the role that community-led housing can play. Details and free booking at Eventbrite here.

5 February 2025 Next meeting of London Land Justice. If you want the notes from October’s meeting or to register for February’s please email Bonnie: bonnievsh@gmail.com

5 December 1800h London Planning Seminar on LTNs in London, free at the Bartlett, UCL. Details and booking https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/events/2024/dec/politics-and-policies-londons-low-traffic-neighbourhoods

24 October 1815-2000 at UCL The first of this session’s London Planning seminars. Prof Christina Pagel on how the country and the city can plan and prepare for the disasters and emergencies yet to come. All welcome. Details and follow-up info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/events/2024/oct/how-should-london-plan-emergencies

16 September to 11 October Retrofitting Social Housing: Alternatives to Demolition; Exhibitions at the Building centre, Store Street, with two free events on 25th details and booking at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-discussions-retrofitting-social-housing-alternatives-to-demolition-tickets-999331867517

30 & 31 August & 1 September Housing Justice Assembly is happening again! Pelican House, Bethnal Green. Save the date for the late summer edition of tenants union exchanges, empowering workshops, movement building and good times! This year we want to get more of LRU’s membership involved 

July 21st 2024 Land Justice Campaign event in Myatt’s Field Park, Camberwell. Follow up to come as well.

17 July 1800-2000h Just Space members’ meeting at 31 Leigh Street, WC1 WC1H 9EP between St Pancras and Russell Square tube stations. Non-members welcome too. (Note change of venue since original announcement.)

17 July 1300-1430  Housing crisis: what next for London? – Just Space and CPRE London – Tickets (eventcube.io) LIve-streamed webinar with speakers Sem Moema (housing lead in the London Assembly) and Prof Josh Ryan-Collins of UCL. Video now online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukwrGXSPJ28

25 June all day, UCL Bartlett School of Planning is convening workshops on community involvement in research, teaching and policy. Details and booking at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/events/2024/jun/planning-research-and-education-partnership-communities

13 April 2024 Launch of Just Space manifesto: 1100-1300h
In person. Book at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/just-space-manifesto-launch-tickets-873450573177

2 May 2024 Who Owns the City? Online seminar with Nick Bano and Isaac Rose. How do we fight back against the effects of rentier capitalism on urban living? At UEL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-owns-the-city-tickets-873254707337

30 November 2023 1800h Putting the Blame on Planning: Housing Crisis and Reform in Ireland. Public lecture followed by drinks at UCL @UCL_BSP Free but reserve a place https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/events/2023/nov/putting-blame-planning-housing-crisis-and-reform-ireland

18 November 10.00 all morning, Just Space meeting open to all in preparation for the next London Plan. Details in our first newsletter https://mailchi.mp/652e987abd5c/just-space-gathering-sat-18th-nov?e=90885f5a36

Past events —oldest first— which have taken place Since January 2020 moved down from the top of the page. Events in earlier years have been archived here for 2013-14 and here for 2015-August 2016 and here for September 2016 to December 2017 ; here for 2018  and here for 2019.

The People’s Land Policy project is organising a series of three
seminars around the issue of land, communities and the ecological
crisis, on 28 July, August 4 and a later date in August. These are listed together, AFTER the next item.

On Wednesday 5 August, at 2 pm, London Tenants Federation and Just Space are organising a Zoom meeting  for tenants and leaseholders of estates that are facing estate regeneration / demolition of their homes. This meeting follows the launch of a website  Estate Watch  that provides research and resources on estate regeneration / demolition  of council housing, a collaboration with  Professor Loretta Lees of Leicester University. The meeting will provide an opportunity for tenants and leaseholders in this situation to share and exchange and consider ongoing mutual support and effective working together. Free but it is essential to book to get the link:

The People’s Land Policy project is organising a series of three
seminars around the issue of land, communities and the ecological
crisis, on 28 July, August 4 and a later date in August. These seminars will explore an understanding of the national context of land use and management in the UK, as well as local Scottish case studies that demonstrate how rethinking land management can empower local communities and deliver climate justice. We also appreciate that the UK is embedded in an international context in respect to land, due to its history as a colonial power, and its role in driving international demand for extracted resources. Our final seminar will explore extractive mining internationally and the relationship of the UK to international land injustice, and how policy changes at home can help communities abroad.

 July 28th Tuesday at 7 pm. Seminar One: Climate change and the
ecological crisis: land use in the UK led by a speaker from Friends of the Earth who
will address the question of what land use changes are necessary in the
UK in order to deal with the threats to our environment. He will
highlight the problems created by the fragmentation and despoliation of
urban, suburban and rural land, which have been fuelled by
hyper-mobility, urbanisation and poor land use practices.  He will
examine how harmful agricultural and forestry practices have contributed
to the degradation of the environment. This session will give us the ideas to help develop an effective strategy for change.  Sign up at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/land-communities-and-the-ecological-crisis-tickets-113441797470 For more info: https://peopleslandpolicy.home.blog/

August 4th: Protecting wild land and empowering communities through land
management: lessons from Scotland led by Mike Daniels, the head of policy and land
management of the John Muir Trust (JMT). The JMT is based in Scotland
and has purchased a number of key properties which it manages with the
aim of conserving and promoting wild land. However, their unique
approach is founded within engagement in partnerships with other
organisations, addressing policy on issues such as wind farms and land
reform, while working closely with communities to ensure that
conservation efforts enhance rather than alienate communities. Mike will
focus on two developing projects: Langholm Estate in southern Scotland
where the community is working on buying this former grouse moor with
the aim of managing it for conservation and rewilding. He will also
discuss the Yeearnstane project close to Glasgow which involves large
urban communities fringing a wild land area.

This session will give us some inspiration of what could be done if we
owned and controlled land.

August 11th or 18th- to be confirmed. Exporting the problem:
international mining and its colonial legacy.  This seminar will be led by speakers from the London Mining Network and their partners, including speakers from Yes to Life, No to Mines and the Anti-Coal Network. We will examine how global mining corporations devastate the environment and the health and well-being of local communities. We will also consider how this relates to the UK. Not only is mining still an issue in this country, for example through fracking,
but the UK has effectively exported many of the problems mining brings to other countries. Communities in the global south have to deal with the ecological, health and social consequences of a brutal mining industry, many of these mining corporations being based in the UK. This session will place our struggle for land rights firmly in the international context, facilitating a movement for land rights that challenges the colonial legacy and is based on solidarity.

September 8 and 9 2020: Planning Research Conference of all the planning schools in the British Isles, hosted this year at The Bartlett, UCL (online). Community participants are warmly welcomed in any/all of the sessions: we are, after all, among the main people who depend on university research and on the people educated to be planners. Free but booking (and programme) at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planning-research-conference-2020-tickets-118516834041.  Do take care to click within the eventbrite page for the conference guide. This PDF has full details of the events including 2 Monday evening events – with separate links not covered by the Tuesday/Wednesday access links.

wed 11 Nov 1200-1300h LSE Seminar on DENSITY – how it is designed, experienced, represented. Free https://mailchi.mp/886fb1b20e2f/london-talkshow-does-planning-deregulation-impact-neighbourhoods-4139121?e=67bf6845b9

Book September for mid-October start: 6 x Saturday mornings course on Housing Rights for Refugees. https://lawforlife.org.uk/blog/housing-rights-for-refugees-online-public-legal-education-course  Michael Marmot Open virtual lecture: Social justice, health equity and COVID-19 Wed 16 September 2020, 10:30–11:30 free booking at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/events/2020/sep/virtual-event-social-justice-health-equity-and-covid-19

27 October Seminar on Financial Crisis, Inequality and prosperity for East London, zoom, free but must book https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/events/2020/oct/igp-presents-financial-crisis-and-inequality-east-london

Land and Food: Social Justice and Ecological Responsibility
The People’s Land Policy is holding a series of four seminars in which we will hear from speakers and discuss what needs to be done in order to achieve a food and agricultural system which produces healthy food for all as well as facilitates environmental objectives such as reducing CO2 emissions and increasing biodiversity. With Brexit and the new
Agricultural Act, it is crucial that we all understand the issues. Food is a basic necessity, with many people not having food security. And agriculture takes up over 70% of land in the UK. For these reasons, how we organise agricultural production affects us all and is interlinked closely with environmental and social issues.
The seminars are:
February 9th 2021: 7 pm Post-Brexit Agriculture: What are the implications for farmers, food
justice and the environment?  Register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-series-land-and-food-social-justice-and-ecological-responsibility-tickets-135663183233
February 23th: 7 pm  Land and Agriculture in the UK   Register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/land-and-farming-in-the-uk-second-seminar-in-land-and-food-series-tickets-136147166841
March 9th: 7pm Urban growing and peri-urban farming
March 23rd: 7 pm UK’s Role in the Global Food Justice Movement
For full details see the Eventbrite links and website:
peopleslandpolicy.org

Housing Action Day 27/28 March 2021 by the European Coalition for Rights to Housing and the City is coordinating actions across the continent. https://housingnotprofit.org/housing-action-day/Cancelled

March 29 workshop at 8PM hosted by AltonAction, to share knowledge about the London Mayor’s policies on housing, environment, estate regeneration and communities. http://ucl.zoom.us/j/97672282303

11 April 1700h Southwark & Lambeth hustings for Assembly candidates. details & link at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gla-election-hustings-southwark-lambeth-tickets-148952483889

19th April. SW London GL Assembly Candidate Hustings | ListenToLocals Video catch-up after the event at https://www.listentolocals.co.uk/video-catch-up

20 April 1930h BST Wandsworth and Merton hustings with their Assembly candidates Details and bookings https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/merton-wandsworth-hustings-london-assembly-elections-2021-tickets-147821882229

21 April G15 big housing associations host a virtual housing debate on 21 April will be chaired by Dave Hill with panellists GarethBaconMP (Con), Sian Berry (green),James Murray (Lab) Dawn_Barnes (LD). Register to attend at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/37609

21 April 2021 1900-2030h Thames Ward Community Project + Planning Aid for London Workshop on how a resident-led forum could help shape new development and planning processes, so that local people are not forgotten. Details and link at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/having-a-say-in-new-housing-development-in-thames-ward-tickets-149152062835

From 22-25 April 2021, the COP26 Coalition will host From the Ground Up: Taking Action, our second global gathering for climate justice. This will be a four day online gathering with 18 sessions dedicated to some of the key issues facing our movements today.

• To emphasize bottom-up planning as part of transition from fossil fuel based economy be part of the Just Transition session session held Friday 23rd, 6.30 – 8.00pm BST.

During this session The New Lucas Plan (UK) in conjunction with Green Jobs Oshawa (Canada) and JustSpace (London, UK) will lead one of the breakout workshops to discuss how transition can be lead from the community and the workplace

  Discussion and Q&A format with speakers: 

• Hilary Wainwright, New Lucas Plan, Red Pepper Magazine editor, author
• Rebecca Keetch, Green Jobs Oshawa
• Richard Lee, JustSpace

HEAR the Equalities and Human Rights Network is holding a series of events in the week of 19 – 23 April, culminating in a hustings for mayoral candidates on 23rd at 1600h GMT.  Cancelled because of illness.

New date: 28 April 1800-2000h BST Mayoral hustings for community groups. Details at https://www.listentolocals.co.uk/event-details/local-community-hustings-online
(to order a (free) ticket click on + beside the 0) moved from earlier date because at least one of the candidates withdrew on account of royal bereavement.

28 April 1300h at Bartlett UCL Inclusive Spaces: Join this interactive session to explore how ethnic minority spaces in London are being impacted by gentrification and ‘hipsterfication’. Saif Osmani, Mama D, Richard Lee https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-spaces-why-is-cultural-heritage-under-threat-in-london-tickets-140296437421?aff=Twitter

Fostering Borough-wide Alliances of Community Organisations Zoom meeting at 6.30 – 7.45 pm on Wednesday 26th January
Zoom link for the meeting (there is no need to register in advance):

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83877163233?pwd=bEh6Uk0xY3BSZHVzZlFmUklTT3NNZz09
Meeting ID: 838 7716 3233, Passcode: 923564

We have three lead speakers for the event, all of whom have considerable experience of building and sustaining such alliances or umbrella organisations:
Gordon Massey – Federation of Residents Associations in Barnet
Kay Garmeson – Ealing Matters
Eileen Conn – Southwark Planning Network
This is a meeting of the London Forum of Civic and Amenity Societies (members of Just Space, as are two of the three spekers).

People’s Land Policy
Making Participatory Democracy a Reality: Building a Movement

Seminar Three: Monday November 22^nd 7 pm

This seminar is in many ways the most important of all our seminars. Whether you are involved in environment, food, or housing struggles, the key issue is how to build an effective movement for systemic change. 

Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-3-making-participatory-democracy-a-reality-building-a-movement-tickets-198871499007

• Speakers: 

Thiago Ávila, one of the founders of the Movimento Bene Viver. This is a movement of diverse struggles in Latin America which shows how effective people can be when united. 

Kate Swadefrom Shared Assets. Shared Assets has been at the forefront of building a movement for land justice. They helped organise the Land for What conference and have recently undertaken a project on how to build a land justice movement.

Kerima Mohideen from the London Mining Networkwhich works in solidarity with communities harmed or threatened with harm by the activities of large mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange and its subsidiary, the Alternative Investment Market.  LMN is made up of a disparate group of people with different political views and different religious beliefs (and none) who work together in formal and informal networks. We are united by our shared commitment to challenging and calling the mining industry to account, sometimes with a degree of success that takes even us by surprise given how small we are. How do we do this? Come and find out!

People’s Land Policy. 8 November, 1900h. Seminar #2

Register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/participatory-democracy-in-practice-in-the-uk-tickets-198864006597
Speakers: Richard Lee from Just Space, Carlos Burgos from Wards Corner,
Angela Langholm Initiative, Speaker on Participatory Budgeting, Matthew
Herbert from Rhizone. Save Latin Village.

If you are interested in Seminar 3 on Movement Building on Nov 22nd,
here is the link to register.
Making Participatory Democracy a Reality: Building a Movement
Register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-3-making-participatory-democracy-a-reality-building-a-movement-tickets-198871499007

Speakers: Thiago Ávila and he is one of the founders of the Movimento
Bene Viver, Shared Assets, and the London Mining Network

The eventbrite page linked above also outlines the second and third seminars in this series on 8 and 22 November.

Local Authority Housing Provision. April 30th 2 p.m. on zoom.
Speakers: Janice Morphet/Ben Clifford Joe Penny https://thelabourcampaignforcouncilhousing.org/2022/04/17/zoo

GLA consultation on draft plan for an Opportunity Area – Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside. 7 Feb -21 March 2022 with 1-hour online events on 3 March pm, 12 March am and 15 March pm. Documents and details at https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/planning/implementing-london-plan/opportunity-areas/londons-opportunity-areas/royal-docks-and-beckton-riverside-opportunity-area [ The sign-up links are not asll working on 10 Feb and we have written to tell them. ]

Tuesday 1 November 2022, 5-6.30 pm UK time at LSE Gentrification and Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives A hybrid event to mark the launch of a new bookThe Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg by Matthias Bernt. Discussants include Michael Edwards (UCL) and Loretta Lees (Boston). Chaired by Hyun Bang Shin (LSE) http://theurbansalon.com/2022/09/26/gentrification-and-public-policy-comparative-perspectives

November 9 2022 Hybrid launch of new online archive of the magazine Community Action in person (Sheffield) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-action-past-present-future-in-person-tickets-438972808487 or online https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/copy-of-community-action-past-present-future-online-tickets-438992537497

September 7 2022, 1400h at City Hall: Meeting of the London Assembly Planning and Regeneration Committe about Covid recovery plans. The agenda is not out yet but the meeting is expected to have contributions both from the Mayor’s Recovery project and from Just Space about the community-led recovery plan. Details will appear online and the meeting can be attended by anyone without booking, online or in person. https://www.london.gov.uk/about-us/londonassembly/meetings/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=441&MId=7224&Ver=4

Wednesday 23 November 1000-1300 at City Hall London Assembly Planning and Regeneration Committee meeting to scrutinise the London legacy Development Corporation LLDC and consider what lessons can be learned. Attend in person or by video. Details and Just Space submissions here.

Tuesday 8 December at U of Westminster, opposite Baker St station, Important conference on the history of industrial relations, 1630-1900h. Free but please reserve a place https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buira-history-of-industrial-relations-study-group-tickets-456899838717. Very good speakers.

19th July – 12th August UNION, a black comedy / property developer losing her mind on the Grand Union Canal / community and the ravages of development at the Arcola in Hackney https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/union Just Space people use discount code: LOCALUNION to save half on tickets. Two post show Q and As (July 26th and 2nd of August, 8.30pm) with London red/green political panel.

13 July 1830h at LSE free hybrid event on mobility and accessibility https://www.lse.ac.uk/Cities/events/2023/0713/Mobilities-of-care-transport-cities-and-gender

13 July all day at City Hall, second open event on Planning for London. Free but must book. https://consult.london.gov.uk/hub-page/planning-for-london-programme

13 July 1400-1500 central London The value of social housing regeneration: launch by the Social Market Foundation of a report sponsored by Clarion, panel discussion https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-the-value-of-social-housing-regeneration-tickets-652012104757?aff=oddtdtcreator

Tuesday 21st March 2023 6-8pm at Draper Hall (SE1 6TL at the Elephant). launch of report: ‘Migrant and Ethnic Economies in Times of Crisis: Regeneration, COVID, Brexit and Cost of Living’ by Latin Elephant. Attend free or remotely https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-launch-migrant-and-ethnic-economies-in-times-of-crisis-tickets-559744730557

9 March Eduardo González de Molina, Barcelona City Hall, will talk on Barcelona’s progressive housing policies to secure the right to housing at 6pm UCL. Free reservation at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/barcelonas-housing-mission-from-market-fixing-to-market-shaping-approach-tickets-558262818117

2 February 2023 European experience in regulating short-term letting (AirBnB etc). Free public lecture by Prof Claire Colomb, 1800h at UCL. Details and booking https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/events/2022/feb/bsp-public-lecture-regulating-short-term-rental-housing-age-digital-platforms

Opening Thursday 19 January (book) and open (no booking needed) until March, exhibition by and about SE1 activists in 1970s, the opening of @UCL UrbanRoom at Olympic Park https://se1stories.uk/connecting-with-current-urban-battles

19th July – 12th August UNION, a black comedy / property developer losing her mind on the Grand Union Canal / community and the ravages of development at the Arcola in Hackney https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/union Just Space people use discount code: LOCALUNION to save half on tickets. Two post show Q and As (July 26th and 2nd of August, 8.30pm) with London red/green political panel.

13 July 1830h at LSE free hybrid event on mobility and accessibility https://www.lse.ac.uk/Cities/events/2023/0713/Mobilities-of-care-transport-cities-and-gender

13 July all day at City Hall, second open event on Planning for London. Free but must book. https://consult.london.gov.uk/hub-page/planning-for-london-programme

13 July 1400-1500 central London The value of social housing regeneration: launch by the Social Market Foundation of a report sponsored by Clarion, panel discussion https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-the-value-of-social-housing-regeneration-tickets-652012104757?aff=oddtdtcreator

Tuesday 21st March 2023 6-8pm at Draper Hall (SE1 6TL at the Elephant). launch of report: ‘Migrant and Ethnic Economies in Times of Crisis: Regeneration, COVID, Brexit and Cost of Living’ by Latin Elephant. Attend free or remotely https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-launch-migrant-and-ethnic-economies-in-times-of-crisis-tickets-559744730557

9 March Eduardo González de Molina, Barcelona City Hall, will talk on Barcelona’s progressive housing policies to secure the right to housing at 6pm UCL. Free reservation at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/barcelonas-housing-mission-from-market-fixing-to-market-shaping-approach-tickets-558262818117

2 February 2023 European experience in regulating short-term letting (AirBnB etc). Free public lecture by Prof Claire Colomb, 1800h at UCL. Details and booking https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/events/2022/feb/bsp-public-lecture-regulating-short-term-rental-housing-age-digital-platforms

Opening Thursday 19 January (book) and open (no booking needed) until March, exhibition by and about SE1 activists in 1970s, the opening of @UCL UrbanRoom at Olympic Park https://se1stories.uk/connecting-with-current-urban-battles

Monday 21st August 2023, 10am-5pm Learning from East End Street Markets 1-day conference Hason Raja Centre, Whitechapel E1 Free to attend but booking essential.  https://streetmarkets.evenbrite.com/

3 October 2023 1830-2030 The London Society Sir Michael Marmot, Social Justice and Health Equity, at The London Centre Aldermanbury (Guildhall). Not free: £15 and concessions. https://thelondonsociety.wildapricot.org/event-5341245 Chaired by Clare Delmar

2 March 2024 Just Space conference on getting a better London, at Coin Street.

To find earlier events, write EVENTS in the search box and then select the dates you want.

Thursday 28 Feb 2019 1700-2000h at LSE: International seminar on displacement. Full details and (free) booking at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seac-and-urban-salon-workshop-revisiting-displacement-in-urban-studies-tickets-55959453231?mc_cid=07a23f69f4&mc_eid=fd654f7f79

LSE London has a series of talks on London Planning issues from Feb to May on Wednesday afternoons. Some but not all clash with our events above. http://lselondonhousing.org/2019/01/london-talks-programme

March 6 on growing food in the green belt.

UCL: Discussing the social & urban impacts of visitor economies, short lets, vacant spaces, with Dr Claire Colomb & Dr Sonia Freire Trigo, 30 April. See you there! Free but reservebit.ly/2W0pcrQ   @UCL_BSP  @TheBartlettPhD@BartlettUCL

23 May 1800h-2000h London Society talks: High Streets – the Value of Public, at Southwark Street, 3 experts speaking. But tickets £15 or £5 for students. http://www.londonsociety.org.uk/event/high-streets-value-public

30 May TCPA open session on Inclusive Planning in London, pm at Coin Street Free but booking essential https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-planning-in-london-stakeholder-summit-tickets-61149958171

new London Plan EiP: Just Space/UCL briefings / de-briefings
For community organisations, UCL students & staff and anyone else who wants to follow in this way. Put these dates in your diary:  1600-1900h

30 January 25 Gordon Street WC1H 0QB Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre [ Slides ]
20 February Bentham House LG26 Lecture Theatre…
13 March 22 Gordon Street room 601, WC1H 0QB
10 April 22 Gordon Street room G12, WC1H 0QB
17 June after the hearings end 22 Gordon Street room 601, WC1H 0QB
This is a change of date and venue!  (previously 5 June was planned)

The Just Space web site has rich resources on the EiP including a new page combining the day-by-day programme of topics, the Panel’s questions for debate, the Just Space responses and reports/blogs on recent sessions.

11th of June (4pm-8pm, Gibbs Green Community Hall) Pablo Sendra and Daniel Fitzpatrick from UCL Bartlett Planning will be organising an event with activists and researchers on *Community-led Estate Regeneration* (co-organised with Just Space). Free but please reserve a place https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-led-social-housing-regeneration-tickets-60476822805

Monday 24 June 1000-1700h in Brixton, conference on protection of London street markets – for traders, users, activists…  Free but details and booking at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-londons-street-markets-1-day-conference-tickets-62201764151?aff=ebdssbdestsearch Jus Space is co-organiser.

Tuesday 25 June 1730-1930 Book launch & drinks: Quality of housing produced through “Permitted Development Rights” conversion from offices, at Bartlett School of Planning UCL Free https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/events/2019/jun/planning-deregulation-housing-quality-and-campaigns-healthy-homes

Weekend 29 & 30 June in Brixton The Food Journey, workshops linking Britain’s historical routes to today’s experiences of culture, tastes, health, communities, economics and oppression. £10 per day. reserve on eventbrite (link to follow).

Saturday 20 July 1245-1500 workshop on the Government’s current consultation on proposed reforms of regulation to high-rise residential dwellings in England following the Grenfell Tower disaster. They include mechanisms to put residents at the heart of the new system such as access to building and fire safety information they need or request, and a fast-track route to a new Building Safety Regulator if their safety concerns are not dealt with effectively by building owners or landlords. The aim of this event is to enable residents and campaigners to properly scrutinise and inform the government’s proposals based on their vital lived experience. We also aim to draw together model responses that campaigners can use as the basis of their own responses to the consultation by the deadline of 31 July 2019. A buffet lunch will be provided. Please register – it is free but we need to know who is coming for lunch. Central London.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/proposed-reforms-of-high-rise-safety-after-grenfell-workshop-for-residents-tickets-65506298101

26 July at Tate Modern, workshops on how universities in London can best collaborate with community groups, as part of Tate Exchange. Organised by Just Space with UCL support. Free but must reserve a place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universities-community-groups-collaborate-tickets-64672188256?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Saturday 7th September 2019 Community Wealth Building Conference                 Registration 10.30 am for 11 am Start; finish at approx. 3 pm. Botwell Social Centre, Botwell Lane, Hayes Middlesex UB3 2FB. (In the precinct of the ‘Immaculate Heart of Mary Church’). Speakers:

the Hon John McDonnell MP – Shadow Chancellor;                                                                Andrew Gwynne MP – Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government;                                                                                                                                              Cllr Matthew Brown – Leader of Preston City Council (Preston Model);                                 Heather Wetzel / Murad Qureshi from the Land Value Tax Campaign;                               Cllr Ali Milani – PPC for Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

“This is part of a series of events where we will look at the impact of austerity on our towns and at the tools and policies we can use to rebuild our local economy. Community wealth-building is a change of our economic system starting at the local level. It is about us coming together in order to take control over some of the most essential aspects of our shared life in our community such as employment, investment, to ensure that the benefits of local growth are invested in our local area and where people and their local institutions can work together on an agenda of shared benefit. I hope you will join us at this event. This is a great opportunity to discuss our vision for a sound economy and community wealth building with other residents, community groups, trade unions and local businesses.                                                                                                                                Helen Lowder, Hayes Office Manager for John McDonnell MP.

To help with catering and seating please register your place by an email to: helen.hayeslabour@hotmail.com by 5pm, 31^st August.”

Wednesday 2 October at LSE, 18.00-19.30 seminar Enhancing green space and biodiversity in London, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Alumni Theatre, free and no need to book.

Thursday 10 October 12.30 – 2.00pm 9.05 Fawcett House, Clement’s Inn, LSE Experiencing Density: life in London’s high-density housing  Speakers: Fanny Blanc is a Policy Officer at LSE London and Tim White is a researcher at LSE Cities. Free but please email if you are coming. Details & email here.Wednesday October 23 1400-2000h  Just Space conference on university/community collaborations. Free but please reserve a place. Further details
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference-universities-and-community-groups-collaborate-tickets-74436560757  Designed so that people at work during the day can come after work.  36-page document prepared for the event.Wednesday 23rd October at 5:00pm  The Railway Metropolis: How planners, politicians and developers shaped modern London, Michael Schabas, Senior rail advisor to Metrolinx, London, UCL, Room LG06 Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN, free but please reserve a place at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/omega-seminar-the-railway-metropolis-how-planners-politicians-and-developers-shaped-modern-lodnon-tickets-73944210123Monday 28 October free public lecture by Anna Minton Who is London For? London Journal at King’s College. Booking & details at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london-journal-annual-lecture-big-capital-who-is-london-for-tickets-75300805737?ref=estw   Tuesday 29th October 2019 1730-1900h UCL Bartlett School London Planning Seminar The Politics of Land Value Capture in London Professor Jenny Robinson (Geography, UCL) Room G.01, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, WC1H 0NN Free and no need to book.   Wednesday 30 October 1900h Lecture by Paul Watt: Housing and homelessness in post-Olympics East London. Ticket £7/5. https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/event/1224/Housing-and-Homelessness-in-Post-Olympics-East-London

Thursday 31 October 1800h at UCL, public lecture on “Foundational Liveability” instead of the pursuit of GDP growth by Karel Williams and Julie Froud (Manchester) Jargon aside, this sounds very stimulating. Talk ends up with Just Space as a great alternative model.  Drinks afterwards. Free but reserve a seat

Tuesday 12th November 2019 1730-1900h UCL Bartlett School London Planning Seminar Community-Led Social Housing Regeneration: Between the Formal and the Informal, Dr Pablo Sendra and Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick (BSP, UCL) Location TBC

Wednesday 13 November 1800h in Lambeth: launch of TCPA report: Planning for a Just London. Free but reserve a place.

Wednesday 4th Dec Density – too much too fast? LSE/ New Academic Building/ Alumni Theatre, 18.15 (coffee from 18.00). Open to all without booking. LSE London.

Tuesday 10th December 2019 1730-2000h UCL Bartlett School London Planning Seminar Social Reproduction and the Housing Question in London, Dr David Madden, at UCL Institute of Education 20 Bedford Way Room 739. Free but please reserve a seat.

This page is an archive of the events listing from September 2016 to the end of 2017.

Sunday September 4 2016 The Olympic Park Jude Rosen and Julian Cheyne E15 1AZ
Everything you wanted to know about the Olympic Park and never dared to ask
Meet 2.30 @ forecourt Stratford Station, level of bus station. You will experience  a different story of regeneration, the Olympics and ‘the legacy’ on the route: which goes from Stratford old town, passes International station,  the new school, Chobham Manor – the site of former Clays Lane; the Velodrome; Eton Manor; former Manor Garden allotments; pit-stop Timber Lodge café; ‘largest new park in Western Europe’; Media Centre; RUN; Mandeville Place, view Hackney Wick; Olympic stadium; the Orbit, International Quarter –ending at Stratford City. Poems from the collection – Reclamations – will be performed on the way to bring in forgotten voices, histories, moments of transformation and alternative which are also present in the landscape.  Booking essential on Eventbrite here (£0-7)

28/29/30 September LSE Resist:  3 days of free events by the Sociology department http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/events/Resist-Festival-of-Ideas-and-Actions.aspx and see www.facebook.com/LSEresist hashtag #LSEresist

Thursday 6th October 2 pm – 5 pm RTPI London/Planning Aid England/Locality  – Community Planning  at Resources for London. The focus is on Housing policies in neighbourhood and community plans.  Richard Lee will be speaking about Just Space Plan for London and the housing policies in the Greater Carpenters Neighbourhood Plan.  For other speakers, programme and (free) registration go to http://www.rtpi.org.uk/events/events-calendar/2016/october/community-planning-afternoon-2016- %E2%80%98a-fairer-and-more-affordable-city%E2%80%99-(1)/

Monday 17 October 1000-1300h  London Assembly Planning Committee – at City Hall. Change of plan: the agenda now concentrates on the London Infrastructure Plan 2050. This is an important document – and because it is  not a statutory one it does not have formal public hearings.  Just Space was very critical of the document at draft stage: our comments here. | Link to agenda and papers here.

For the record, these events were listed on this site in 2015 and up to August 2016.

Tuesday 20 January 2015 1730h Dr Max Nathan Planning for London’s Tech City, at Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, Room G01, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN No need to book. http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/events/lps-nathan-nov-14

Three meetings at City Hall about the next set of alterations for the London Plan:

• Thursday 14 May 2015 – Minor Alterations launch event with Sir Edward Lister, 12 noon to 2 pm, London’s Living Room, City Hall
• Monday 18 May 2015 – Housing Standards Minor Alterations consultation event, 10 am to 12 noon, London’s Living Room, City Hall
• Wednesday 27 May 2015 – Parking Standards Minor Alterations consultation event, 10 am to 12 noon, London’s Living Room, City Hall

Details are here on the GLA web site.

Tuesday 26 May 2015 20.00hr: The Affordable Housing Crisis, BBC Radio 4 (to be repeated Sunday 31 May 2015 17.00hr), presented by Lesley Curwen who investigates the ways that councils negotiate affordable housing with developers.

Monday 1 June to Sunday 7 June 2015 11.00-17.30hr weekdays, 12.00-16.00hr Sat & Sun: Employment Land Portfolio – Drawings of Tottenham, an exhibition of White Hart Industrial Estate by Lucinda Rogers. Part of the London Festival of Architecture, the project was spurred by Cass Cities research on the disappearance of industrial land. At Heyne Tillett Steel, Engineers, 4 Pear Tree Court, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0DS .

Saturday 9 June to Tuesday 16 June 2015 12.00-18.00hr: Ubiquitous Unique, an Installation challenging claims for the uniqueness of developments and providing a hub for new ideas on the relationship of architecture, development and communities. It is curated by Reclaim London, a new group formed to voice the collective concerns of Londoners about the city’s growth while seeking accountability and fairness in the planning process. At the Red Gallery, 1-3 Rivington Street EC2A 3DT.

Friday June 12th, 7-9pm Concrete Heart Land will be screened as part of an evening called “Mapping Displacement & Resistance” Room LG01 at Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College. This event brings together activists, artists, academics and residents, to map housing displacement in London and to discuss ways of resisting the social cleansing and displacement that the current dominant neoliberal model perpetuates. For more information contact l.glucksberg@gold.ac.uk
https://www.facebook.com/events/103279386675581/

15th June until 20th June Cass Cities and Building Bloqs invite you to the London Festival of Architecture exhibition Where London Works at Building Bloqs, 4 Anthony Way, N18. Where London Works celebrates the vibrancy, diversity and importance of the increasingly undermined industrial economy in the Middle Lea Valley. The exhibition showcases over 100 interviews with businesses, from 165 year old wholesalers to the shoemakers for West End theatres.

Thursday 18 June 2015 18.00-20.00hr plus: Rethinking smart cities from the ground up @ London technology week,The London Living Room, City Hall, organised by Nesta with panellists discussing: How can city governments use digital technology to engage, enable and empower citizens? How can people use digital technology to influence the way their cities work? Register here  .