Beyond delivering places, how do we make a positive social impact? 
Join us from 2-3 February 2026 online from 11am-3pm for two lunchtime learning sessions.
Live streamed with audience Q&A, everything recorded and available on demand.

 

Learn what experts, industry leaders and researchers are doing to deliver social impact within and beyond the site boundaries. Discover case studies, emerging practice, research, business, investor, developer and policy thinking on creating and measuring social impact.

 

Members go free! If your organisation is a member, simply register using your work email linked to your organisation on Airmeet. A list of current organisation members is provided below. All staff have free access to this event. After registering, you will receive an email from Airmeet with your unique link. Contact kimberley@thedeveloper.live for support 

 

Not a member?
Tickets are available for purchase at £175+VAT. Book tickets now and get the special early bird offer of £125 - Ends 21 January

 

Membership is designed for organisations that want to invest in learning, gain fresh thinking and join a wider community of purpose-driven professionals striving to make a positive impact on place. Not a member? Enquire here. 

 

Sessions

 

Community spaces: The key to regeneration without gentrification? Dr Alice Earley shares her research into the power of community spaces, using them as a lens to understand the complex interrelations between regeneration, gentrification and community enterprise

 

Beyond homes: Delivering social impact Beyond the provision of affordable homes, how can housing deliver a positive social impact and how should impact be measured and quantified? Shaun Holdcroft Head of Affordable Housing at L&G reflects on the services, investments and provisions that maximise the positive impact of affordable homes

 

Meeting the needs of the city With over 5,500 acres of land across the capital, TfL is one of London’s largest landowners: Graeme Craig, chief executive of Places for London, TfL’s financially independent property company, speaks about their mission to untap the potential of that land while bringing essential services closer to communities

 

Health in place: Liverpool Green Lanes Learn about innovative, cross-sector approaches that blur boundaries between healthcare, education and urban design to create more resilient, healthy cities and towns, and healthier city living with Paul Bell and Lois Sykes from Ryder Architecture.

 

Diverse students diverse spaces Gain insights from 1,000 first-year university students into how taste, function and spatial comfort can foster belonging and improve engagement with Hazel York and Xuhong Zheng from Hawkins\Brown

 

Rights to place: Delivering spatial justice in UK cities Discover practical starting points to support spatial justice and recognise that where we live shapes how we live, with Cllr John Merry, chair of Key Cities and deputy city mayor, Salford and Holly Lewis, founding director of We Made That

 

Member sign up

If your organisation is a member, simply register below using your work email linked to your organisation. A list of current organisation members is provided below. All staff have free access to this event. After registering, you will receive an email from Airmeet with your unique link.