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Housing - Who Pays? BPF Residential Conference 2009

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Past event report

Our annual residential dinner and conference took place on Tuesday, 27 January 2009 in central London.

Allen & Overy LLP hosted the conference at their Foster & Partners' designed One Bishops Square offices near Liverpool Street.

Last year over 200 delegates from the investment, development and policy worlds joined us to debate, network and be informed by the array of experienced speakers.

Conference programme

08.40 Registration

09.15 Local hero: making the most out of the private rented sector in your area
Alan Elbrough, Founder, Settled Housing Solutions LLP

10.00 State of the nation: how are landlords coping with the crunch?
Mark Long, Client Services Director, BDRC Group

10.30 Tea and coffee break

11.00 Conference welcome and introduction
Trevor Moross, Managing Director, Dorrington

11.10 Loaned money, borrowed time: how to restore lenders’ confidence in the affordable housing sector?
Peter Marsh, Chief Executive Officer, Tenants Services Authority

11.30 Reality check: what is the outlook for the housing, debt and equity markets in 2009?
Richard Donnell, Director of Research, Hometrack
Fionnuala Earley, Chief Economist, Nationwide Building Society
Peter Simpson, Commercial Director, Checkmate Mortgages

12.30 Networking lunch

13.30 The Private Rented Sector Review: right turn or wrong direction?
Dr Julie Rugg, Senior Researcher, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York

14.00 Out of the rubble: what models of development will emerge strongest from the crunch?
Anu Vedi, Chief Executive Officer, Genesis Housing Association
Mark Loveday QC, Cabinet lead for Housing, Hammersmith and Fulham Council
John Stewart, Economic Affairs Director, Home Builders Federation

15.00 Tea and coffee break

15.30 ‘Boris the Builder’: can the Mayor deliver London’s housing needs?
Richard Blakeway, Housing Director, London Mayor’s Office

16.00 ‘It’s nasty out there’: how the Home and Communities Agency will utilise and support the private sector
Sir Bob Kerslake, Chief Executive, Homes and Communities Agency

16.30 Close

The dinner took place at the Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall on the evening of Monday, 26 January. Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Housing Minister, and David Pretty, Chairman of the Home Builders Federation’s New Homes Marketing Board, will be the guest speakers at the residential dinner.

The event was sponsored by Allen & Overy, Allsop LLP, Annington Homes, Grainger plc, TTA Group and the UNITE Group.

Event write up

Almost 300 guests attended our annual residential dinner and conference this week, making it our most successful residential event yet.

Grant Shapps MP and David Pretty CBE addressed just over 180 guests at the dinner on the palatial surroundings of the Royal Automobile Club on Monday evening.

At the conference the following day, hosted by Allen and Overy LLP, almost 350 delegates joined us to examine the key challenges facing the residential sector over the next twelve months. We also generated considerable media coverage in the national and broadcast press.

Thanks to all those who attended for making the dinner and conference such a success, and if you were unable to join us this week, you can view a PDF of the presentations delivered during the day can be downloaded from our website.