The Place Management Conference 2024: We Need to Talk About Housing!

There is an undeniable shift happening. Town and city centres, for so long the hubs of commerce, are under pressure to embrace residential.

For decades, mixed use centres where commercial and residential happily co-exist have been a long held desire for many place-makers. In recent years, as an over-supply of commercial space collides with a housing supply crisis, this desire has evolved to an urgent need. Despite this, making housing work in town and city centres is far from easy.

For some towns, the transition is problematic and hard to achieve. For others, this transition may not be possible at all which creates its own problems. In every town, more housing and less commercial would come with important questions around funding and the role of the place management industry.

We need to talk about housing!

The 2024 Place Management Conference will explore the future of UK and Irish town and…