Date: 6 February 2025, 8:00 - 12:00
Location: Preston Guild Hall, Lancaster Rd, Preston, PR1 1HT
Email: [email protected]
Company: Place North West
Lancashire Development Update 2025
Date: 6 February 2025, 8:00 - 12:00
Location: Preston Guild Hall, Lancaster Rd, Preston, PR1 1HT
Email: [email protected]
Company: Place North West
Preston, Blackpool, Lytham, Chorley, Lancaster and Morecambe, Ribble Valley…
Place North West’s series of unmissable sub-regional briefings offer the chance to get under the skin of the local market and mix with the movers and shakers who are shaping the latest major projects.
Speakers confirmed:
Nick Gerrard, growth and prosperity programme director, Blackpool Council
Adrian Phillips, chief executive, Preston City Council
Nick Hague, project director, Maple Grove Developments
Dan Prince, professor of cyber security at Lancaster university and co-director of Security Lancaster
Kate Ingram, director of economy and development, Burnley Council
Deborah Smith, managing director, S&L
John Chesworth, chair, Preston Partnership
Simon Lawrence, director of growth and regeneration, Lancashire County Council
James Thomson, associate director, Hawkins Brown
Companies signed up to attend include Eric Wright Group, Deloitte, Walker Sime, Harrison Drury, NG Bailey, Fairhaven Housing, Wardell Armstrong, Brabners, Hive Land & Planning, Rosslee Construction, and more.
- KATE INGRAM, BURNLEY COUNCIL
Kate Ingram is the Director of Economy and Development at Burnley Borough Council and is responsible for planning, housing, regeneration and economic development. Kate has been leading Burnley’s transformation for over a decade, delivering complex placemaking projects and building strong collaborations with the private sector.
- DEBORAH SMITH, S&L
Deborah is a chartered planning consultant with almost 30 years of experience, including nine years in a senior role in national planning consultancy Turley before co-founding Smith & Love in 2015. She has been involved with many significant projects and has a proven track record in managing multi-disciplinary teams and preparing and negotiating complex applications.
- ADRIAN PHILLIPS, PRESTON CITY COUNCIL
Adrian was formerly appointed at Chief Executive of Preston City Council in April 2019. Having worked as an officer at Preston City Council for the past 33 years, Mr Phillips has been actively involved in the delivery of a range of major capital projects including leading on heritage park restorations such as Avenham & Miller and Winckley Square, and as project sponsor for the Preston Markets Quarter redevelopment.
Prior to his appointment as interim chief executive in 2018, Mr Phillips was the council’s director of environment.
- NICK HAGUE, MAPLE GROVE DEVELOPMENTS. Nick is an experienced Project Management professional, with over 25 years’ experience in delivering high quality, multi-phased, mixed use developments in partnership with a range of private and public sector organisations. Prior to joining Maple Grove in April 2022, Nick worked for Muse Developments for over 10 years, in the delivery of both their Salford New Bailey and Stockport Exchange masterplans including commercial offices, high rise residential, hotels, and infrastructure.
- JOHN CHESWORTH, THE PRESTON PARTNERSHIP John is a property lawyer and Senior Partner of Harrison Drury Solicitors a regional law firm with its headquarters in Lancashire. John chairs the Preston Partnership and the Preston Towns Fund Board, and sits on the Lancashire Business Board which will be part of the Lancashire County Combined Authority when it is established in the new year.
- SIMON LAWRENCE, LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL Simon leads the County’s Major Development portfolio which currently includes projects such as the Farington Cricket Facility, the Eden Project at Morecambe and the planned arrival of NCF at Samlesbury. Since joining the County Council nearly 2 years ago Simon has led on the devolution activity, working closely with colleagues in Whitehall, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen all focussed on achieving a Deal for Lancashire.
- JAMES THOMSON, HAWKINS/ BROWN James is an Associate Director at HawkinsBrown’s Manchester studio, experienced in designing and delivering transformative education projects across the region. Recent projects include UCLan’s Student Centre, creating a new front door with shared public space between the university and the city; and Blackpool Multiversity, placing education at the forefront of town centre regeneration.
View last year’s event write up and gallery here.
Tickets cost £88+VAT. There will be a mix of presentations and panels. Breakfast and lunch are included, providing plenty of opportunity for business development.
Book using the form below – if you can’t see the form, please contact [email protected]
This event is sponsored by Blackpool Council and Preston Council
