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Concreting the Countryside Sir Peter Hall Martin Crookston Simon Jenkins 13 May 2008 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)     Watch (requires Flash 9) Watch the videos of the discussion here  Download (PDF)   Where has all the concrete gone? - Sir Peter Hall download   Where should the concrete go? - Martin Crookston download  Tell us what you think...  Share your views on our forum or email us Speaker biographies Sir Peter Hall is the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and President of the Town and Country Planning Association. He is an internationally renowned authority on the economic, demographic, cultural and management issues that face cities around the globe. Sir Peter has also been for many years a key planning and regeneration adviser to successive governments. Martin Crookston is an urban economist at London School of Economics and town planner at Glasgow University, and a director of Urban Studio, a team of urban planners, designers and researchers. He was a member of the UK Government’s Urban Task Force led by Lord Rogers of Riverside. He collaborated with Professor Sir Peter Hall on the major Four World Cities study of London, Paris, New York & Tokyo. Simon Jenkins is a journalist and author. He writes for the Guardian and the Sunday Times, as well as broadcasting for the BBC. He has edited the Times and the London Evening Standard.

Quick Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · 5 new eco towns to be built by 2016 [DCLG, 3 April 2008] · 10 new eco towns to be built by 2020 [DCLG, 3 April 2008] · 20 Urban Regeneration Companies across England [English Partnerships] · 21 square miles countryside lost to development each year, housing accounts for around half of this [CPRE analysis of DCLG LUCS data, 2006] · 40 miles length of the Thames Gateway which will include 160,000 new homes · 240,000 carbon neutral homes in eco towns [BBC, 3 April 2008] · 240,000 empty homes in London, the South East, and East of England [CPRE analysis of DCLG housing statistics] · 255,000 English families who own a second home in England [DCLG, July 2006] · 3 million New homes the Gov't is committed to build by 2020 [DCLG, 3 April 2008]