London Property Alliance (CPA & WPA)

In our latest podcast marking International Women’s Day, we explore the vital role that women play in central London’s property sector and how women have and are shaping our city.

Featuring interviews with policymakers, industry and thought leaders from across the Alliance’s network, speak about the importance of gender equity in London’s real estate industry and how women are changing the design of places and spaces in central London. We also discuss what a more diverse industry could mean for London’s future.

This podcast features Gudrun Andrews (Head of Planning Policy, City of London Corporation), Katy Ghahremani (Partner, Make Architects & WPA Board member), Deborah Saunt (academic, CPA Board member & Founding Director, DSDHA), Niamh Sutherland (CPA NextGen committee member & Principal Engineer, Momentum Transport Consultancy) and Professor Tony Travers (Director, London School of Economics and Political Science); hosted by the Alliance’s Alice Dale (Communications Manager).

In this first episode we will be exploring the City of London Corporation’s approach to delivering sustainable development through its newly adopted Carbon Options Guidance (COG), which is a key part of the City Corporation’s approach to delivering a net zero City by 2040.

In conversation, Marie-Louise Schembri, Sustainability Director at Hilson Moran, Carina Pohnke, Planning Officer – Sustainability, at City of London Corporation, and Alex Thorpe, CPA NextGen Committee Member and Senior Development Manager at CO-RE will discuss the COG and what this means for City planning going forward.

This podcast has been made possible by NextGen champion Gardiner & Theobald.

Decarbonising our offices – how can the built environment meet the Net Zero Carbon challenge.

Listen to the members of the CPA NextGen committee discuss how the built environment can meet the Net Zero Carbon challenges.

CPA’s NextGen Committee Vice Chair, Leila Gray (Sheppard Robson) and committee member Alex Parsons (CO-RE) delves into how the built environment, particularly offices, can achieve net zero carbon and help to address the climate emergency. Leila and Alex are joined by Ross Sayers, CPA Board member and Landsec Head of Development Management; Anna Biggin, CBRE, London leasing team and Rachel Hoolahan, Architect and Sustainability Coordinator at Orms. The group discuss the challenges, changes in behaviour required and potential solutions to decarbonising our workplaces.

Complementing the publication of a new London Property Alliance guidebook about disability and the built environment, Mike Adams OBE (CEO, Purple), Claire Heapher-Davies (WPA NextGen; Development Manager – Public Realm , The Crown Estate) and Bhakti Depala (CPA NextGen; City of London Corporation, Head of Planning Delivery, City of London Corporation) share insights and experiences on how the property sector and the physical built environment can and should be made more inclusive for people with disabilities of all types.

WPANextGen committee members Charlotte Ashton (Colliers) and Matthew Barret (CBRE) explore flexible working and remote collaboration in the workplace with panellists Kate Davies (Infinity Sqd), Matt Holt (Gensler), Sven Moller (Colliers) and Matthew O'Halloran (Smart Spaces).

The third episode of WPA NextGen’s podcast mini-series explores the role of developers in achieving net zero carbon with Grosvenor Britain & Ireland’s Director of Climate Positive Solutions, Andy Haigh.

In episode two of this WPA NextGen mini-series, Caroline Haines (WPA NextGen Committee Member and Development Manager at Derwent London) speaks with Gary Elliott (CEO and Founder of Elliott Wood Partnership Ltd, Structural Engineers) about key considerations when designing to achieve net zero carbon.

Westminster Property Association's NextGen committee welcome listeners to a mini-series exploring the role of development and design in creating a sustainable, zero carbon Westminster.

The latest London Property Alliance podcast hears from London's first Night Czar, Amy Lamé.

In this fireside chat with Joseph Booth (London Property Alliance - Communications Executive), she discusses the crucial role LGBTQ+ venues play as safe spaces and in supporting London's ecosystem; what the built environment sector should be doing to support and protect LGBTQ+ spaces; and the initiatives being led by City Hall to ensure that London's LGBTQ+ community and included and supported.

CPA NextGen Vice Chair Emily Laverick (Built-ID – Marketing Director) sits down with inspiring South London teacher Neil Pinder (Graveney School – Product Design and Architecture teacher) to discuss how the UK’s education system can better prepare our young people for a creative career in property; what London’s real estate companies can do to promote the sector to young and diverse students; and how we can utilise Central London’s unique urban fabric to show that #LondonIsOpen to all.