Housing 2024

Uniting the sector. Making lives better.

As you know the BPF are partnering with Housing 2024, Europe’s largest housing festival taking place in Manchester. Housing will welcome 9000 attendees with 500 speakers. We have been working with the organisers to widen their focus from social and affordable to all living sectors.

We know your time is precious so we have curated a 24hr programme to ensure your time in Manchester is well spent and introductions will be in place for you to meet all stakeholders in the housing and wider living sector.

We have the following opportunities available to you:

Registration options for attending Housing 2024:
• If you are a bank, investor, fund manager or a Property Company we have 500 free delegate passes for Thursday available. To register please click here.
• If you wish to book a delegate place for the event and do not fulfil the above criteria please register here and claim the BPF 25% discount using code BPF25. (This only applies to new delegate bookings).
• If you are a BPF Futures member please click here to register for your free delegate passes for Thursday.

PROGRAMME:

Wednesday 26 June
16.30-17.30 Inside Housing magazine’s 40th birthday event and drinks reception (Showfloor open to anyone attending Housing) welcoming Sir Michael Lyons to deliver his thoughts on what has changed since the Lyons Review, a UK public policy review on Housing initiated by the Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband, some 10 years ago. With his thoughts on what the future needs to hold. Open invite to all attendees at Housing.

18.30-23.30 Unlock Net Zero Live awards in partnership with BPF. In place of our own BPF Residential Dinner we have decided to partner with Housing 2024 on this great initiative. We’ve introduced four new BPF Awards. Join 800 others for a night recognising and championing progress on the journey to decarbonisation across the housing and wider living sector. See the full shortlist of who will be in the room here. We hope you can join us! Click here to purchase full or half table or individual tickets.

Thursday 27 June
Networking: 08.00-08.55 BPF ‘Building More Homes’ breakfast (Keynote Theatre - delegate pass required for access) At the beginning of the year, BPF launched their General Election Manifesto ‘Building our Future’ and recently added detail on its calls to build more homes in a specific housing manifesto ‘Building for Generations’. This invite-only breakfast will delve into the industry’s living sectors offers to, and asks from, the next Government. To register your place, click here.

Panel session: 09.30-10.30 Who is investing in our sector, in what, and why?
A panel of leading housing investors will discuss their long-term investment strategies, what is required to reassure the markets, how short-term impacts over the past 18 months have had a negative impact, and how we learn from this to move forward.
• Chair: Tim Reid, customer relationship director, NHBC
• Harry Swales, director and head of residential, Dorrington PLC
• Mike Shepherd, investment director, community housing team, Man GPM
• Rebecca Taylor, managing director of multifamily, Long Harbour
• Hayley Rees, managing director, PIC Capital, Pension Insurance Corporation
• Amy Nettleton, assistant development director, sales and marketing, Aster Group

Panel session: 11.00-11.55 Getting comfortable with for-profits
It is 16 years since the 2008 Act allowed profit making organisations to be registered with the social housing regulator. After a slow start, investment into the sector has accelerated, to the comfort of some and discomfort of others in the not-for-profit sector. What are the truths and myths about for-profits? What is the sector doing to improve understanding? What is the potential? (This session might include the launch of the For-Profit Code of Practice.)
• Andy Hulme, chief executive officer, Hyde Group
• Rizwan Khan, head of investments and partnerships, Sage Housing
• Cath Webster, chief executive officer, Thriving Investments
• Helen Collins, head of affordable housing consultancy, Savills
• Rob Beiley, partner, Trowers & Hamlins

Panel session: 12.00-13.00 A planning roadmap for the next government
The planning system seems to be in a state of perpetual flux, yet support for housing delivery feels like it is in reverse. This session will explore what are the problems, what are the solutions a future Government should contemplate, and what can it learn from the current Government’s efforts?
• Ian Fletcher, director of policy, British Property Federation
• Michael Keaveney, director of land and development, Grainger
• Tom Dobson, managing director, Quod
• Colette McCormack, head of planning, partner, Winckworth Sherwood
• Brendan Kilpatrick, senior partner, PRP

13.00-14.00 BPF Living Sector Investor Lunch with keynote from Toby Lloyd ex SPAD to Theresa May.
By invitation only - an exclusive networking lunch event which brings together leading UK investors, property companies, developers and registered providers.  To express your interest please email events@bpf.org.uk 

14.00-15.00 Closing keynote with Toby Lloyd, ex SPAD to Theresa May

15.00-17.00 Victoria North study tour with the Far East Consortium, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Manchester City Council - The story behind 15,000 new homes across all tenures. To express your interest email events@bpf.org.uk

Our study tour will bring learning to life and give you the opportunity to explore a local and innovative development first-hand. Meet the leaders who will tell the story of their journey and make connections during the group tour. You will return to your workplace re-energised and filled with new ideas!

Victoria North is set to transform the neighbourhoods running north of the city centre along the River Irk, from Red Bank and New Cross up to Collyhurst. The long-term plan will create sustainable residential communities through 15,000 new homes that will benefit from new and improved transport links, community facilities and a network of green public spaces. Find out more about the progress to date here >>