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Building Sustainable Communities: A Keynote speech by Yvette Cooper MP, Minister for Housing and Planning

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13 July 2005

There is an acknowledgement that we need to build more housing. However, we need to explore where the priorities should lie and how best to manage housing growth successfully. Whilst avoiding mistakes of the past which, due to poor planning and design, left significant and costly legacies.

The event addressed whether the current framework for delivery can achieve adequate infrastructure investment or are we at risk of building unsustainable, isolated communities without access to transport, services and facilities. It also looked at the key social and economic challenges inherent in creating new communities on a large scale.

This event was supported by the British Property Federation

Speakers

Keynote speech by Yvette Cooper MP, Minister for Housing and Planning, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Yvette Cooper speech

Liz Peace, Chief Executive of the British Property Federation

Jim Bennett, Senior Research Fellow at ippr.

Chaired by Polly Toynbee, The Guardian

Contact

Ruth Eldridge - r.eldridge@ippr.org