Why
Regeneration is under the spotlight, and those that produce regeneration outcomes through drafting and managing policy in central and local government, delivering regeneration services and projects or designing and developing housing and commercial property have obligations. The CRE report found that those obligations are not being fulfilled. Legislation is getting stronger and being applied more to enforce those obligations. Furthermore, regeneration aims to deliver physical, economic and social change and inadequate consideration of equality and diversity issues means that those goals cannot be successfully achieved.
What
This timely and topical conference will explore in detail about any practical responses that the regeneration world can make to the CRE's formal investigation. Emerging issues from the CRE (now Commission for Equality and Human Rights) highlighted a number of concerns, such as poor housing conditions, the shortage of affordable homes, as well as a lack of choice, particularly for ethnic minority communities.
This high level conference will serve to open up the debate, examine how regeneration can produce better outcomes in terms equality and diversity and also assess the issues concerning regeneration workforce itself.
Who
Simple………those that are concerned at a professional or personal level of ensuring that regeneration projects, schemes and policy achieve physical, economic and social change for all. This will include senior representatives from Local and Central Government, the Third Sector, Social Enterprise, Urban Designers, Planners and Architects and the Property Development community and those that advise and support them.
