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Our Speakers

Meet the speakers across all of our panel sessions.

Adrian Plant

Director, SOWN

Ann Santry CBE

Chair, Shared Ownership Council

Ashley Kensington

National Land Director, Lovell Strategic Land

David Lamm

CEO, L1 Capital

David Smith

Editor, Sunday Times

Dawn Wylie

Group Land Director, Taylor Wimpey

Duncan Williams

Acquisition Director - Single-Family Housing, Apache Capital/Present Made

Ed Whiting

Chief Executive, Leeds City Council

Grant Leggett

Executive Director, Boyer

Hannah Cooper - Chair

Group HR Director, LRG

Ian Barnett - Chair

Group Land and Development Director, LRG

Jan Bessell FRTPI

President, Royal Town Planning Institute

Julia Dacre Field

Partner, Gowlings WLG

Justine Edmonds - Chair

Director, Build to Rent, LRG

Karen Charles

Executive Director, Head of Boyer South, Boyer

Kelly McCabe

Managing Director, The Mortgage People (TMP)

Kevin Hollinrake MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government

Lord Charlie Banner KC

Keating Chambers

Lorraine Williamson

Senior Associate, Rider Levett Bucknall

Mark Manning - Chair

Managing Director, Northern Estate Agency Group

Michael Cook - Chair

Chief Executive Officer, LRG

Natasha Tull

Head of Sales, The Guinness Partnership

Neil Louth

Chief Executive Officer, The Acorn Group

Paul Brocklehurst

Chairman, Land Planning & Development Federation

Peter Hawley - Chair

Director, SOWN

Richard Donnell

Executive Director, Zoopla

Richard Irving

Director, ID Planning

Robyn Prince

Head of Strategic Growth, Vistry London

Sandra Jones

Managing Director, Price Hubble

Stephanie Hattersley

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Stuart Hensby

Director of Sales and Marketing, Abri Group

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Day 1

Rise and Fall - The Tensions Between Planning, Land Value and Housing Delivery

9:00 AM - 10:30AM
LRG Pavilion
Day 1

Living Markets: Making the Numbers Work

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LRG Pavillion
Day 1

EmpowerHer: The Only Woman in the Room - Turning Isolation into Influence

12:30PM - 1:30PM
LRG Pavilion
Day 1

LRG & Freeths - UKREiiF Fringe Drinks Reception

5:00PM - 9:30PM
The Head of Steam, Park Row
Day 2

Levelling Up the North: Promise, Progress or Political Fantasy?

9:30AM - 11:00AM
LRG Pavilion
Day 2

Does Shared Ownership Still Stack Up? Exploring Supply, Demand and the Real Barriers to Entry

11:30AM - 12:30PM
LRG Pavilion
Day 2

The Big Picture: Is the UK Housing Market Finally Turning a Corner?

1:00 PM - 2:00PM
LRG Pavilion