The conference will tackle every day and long-term issues that professionals in this sector face. Best practice in urban design guidance will be discussed while also considering ways of passing on valuable urban design lessons, insights and knowledge to collegues and partners to ensure consistency of policy through departments within authorities and over the years.

Speakers included: Chair: Tom Franklin, Director, Living Streets; David Lunts, Director of Urban Policy, ODPM; Julia Thrift, Director, CABE Space; John Dales, Director, Urban Initiatives; Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Director, Hamilton-Baillie Associates; Mike Morris, Director - Engineering and Public Space Design, Urban Initiatives; Ruth Stokes, Senior Planning Officer & Andrew Guttridge, Roads & Bridges Manager, Suffolk County Council; Eoghan Sheils, Landscape Designer, Sheils Flynn; Chair: Andrew Kliman, Contributing Editor, New Urban Futures; Eelco Hooftman, Landscape Architect, Gross Max; Wayne Hemingway, Chairman, Building for Life; Tim Stonor, Managing Director, Space Syntax; Colin Davis, Colin Davis Associates