Lancashire Built Environment Conference

25 Sep 2024

Conference and Exhibition Centre, Winter Gardens Blackpool, FY1 1HL

08:30 - 13:00

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Lancashire’s Gamechangers

In association with Blackpool and Fylde College, Blackpool Makes It Work, Connections2energy and Harrison Drury Solicitors

Exhibitors: Chamber Low Carbon, Fairhaven Housing Association, Site Surveying Services, Story Homes, Viridium 
Supporter: Smith & Love Planning Consultants

The projects, people and businesses powering the county's regeneration.

Lancashire Business View will return once again with its popular Built Environment Conference in September in association with Blackpool and the Fylde College, Blackpool Makes it Work, Connections2energy and Harrison Drury Solicitors.

This year the focus of the conference will the big ticket projects happening across the county.

We’ll look at where they’re at, what impact they’ll have and consider if we have enough of them in the pipeline.

This will include a look at local masterplans, regional strategies and projects such as Eden Project Morecambe, Silicon Sands Blackpool, Station Gateway Preston, Blackburn’s masterplan, Lancashire Central and Farington Cricket and the county’s enterprise zones.  

We’ll also cover as part of the event:

  • ESG
  • Planning
  • Housing
  • Skills
  • Levelling up
  • Innovation
  • Investment and regeneration
  • Supply chain opportunities

And with the event scheduled for just a few months after the general election this July, we’ll address what the results mean on both a wider and more regional scale.

We will also revisit Lancashire’s long-term strategic plan for the future: ‘Lancashire 2050’, which took focus at the 2023 conference, to review where we’re at now.

View last year’s conference round up here, and full report here.

Our speakers:

John Chesworth

John Chesworth

executive chairman

Harrison Drury Solicitors

Courtney Prestage

Katie Day

strategy director and deputy chief executive

Transport for the North

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Linda Dean

deputy principal apprenticeships business and people

Blackpool and The Fylde College

Linda Dean

Nick Gerrard

growth and prosperity programme director

Blackpool Council

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Simon Lawrence

Lancashire County Council

head of strategic development

Simon Lawrence

Adrian Phillips

chief executive

Preston Council

Rose Rouse

Courtney Prestage

commercial director

Connections2energy

Adrian Phillips

Rose Rouse

chief executive

Pendle Council

Katieday

John Winstanley

managing director

Story Homes

Join us to:

  • Get the latest updates on the big projects taking shape in the county
  • Hear and learn from experts in the sector
  • Meet and network with the speakers, sponsors and attendees
  • Explore the exhibition made-up of sector experts
  • Learn about supply chain opportunities
  • Influence the conversation on the future of the built environment in the county

The event will be reviewed in full in Lancashire Business View’s Property Report in our November / December edition and shared with our 50,000 readers in print and online.

Sponsorship 

For sponsorship opportunities including exhibition options please contact Stephen Bolton on [email protected] or 07966 090175 or Joanne Hindley on [email protected] or 07442 949697.

Tickets - £50 +VAT 
Pair of tickets - £90+VAT 

Tickets include light breakfast, refreshments and lunch with full access to the event including exhibition, networking and conference. 

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