IHBC welcomes PLACE-inspired ‘Big Meet: Stage 2’

Following the July 2014 ‘Big Meet’, where cross sector representatives met as a response to the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment and its promotion of a PLACE-based link network, possibly modelled on the Heritage Alliance initiative or similar, a ‘Big Meet 2’ will take place on 2 October, with the IHBC in attendance and warmly welcoming the initiative.

IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘We are delighted to welcome the opportunity to discuss the formation of the PLACE Alliance and to be able to offer some critical strategic input into the placemaking agenda arising from the Farrell review.’

‘The PLACE agenda links ‘Planning, Landscape, Architecture, Conservation and Engineering’, so clearly we were delighted that conservation rightly sits with the heart of convenient acronym.  Now we know it’s time for us to do more to progress that agenda, and the Big Meet 2 offers a perfect opportunity for us all to move forward together.’

The meeting will discuss options for the founding of the PLACE Alliance and ways in which it could operate, for example influencing national policy and encouraging public engagement. 

UCL – background to the meeting

Place Alliance discussion paper

Feedback report on Big Meet 1

IHBC newsblogs on the Farrell Review

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