Greater Manchester Development Update

PAUL WHITTINGHAM, BOLTON COUNCIL |Paul is responsible for the regeneration and economic development functions at Bolton Council. He oversees a team with responsibility for town and district centre master planning, delivery of key regeneration funding for projects and works closely with developer partners on the delivery of key regeneration projects. He is also driving forward the delivery and implementation of the council’s economic growth and resilience plan to boost skills, create jobs and support business investment.

JOANNE RONEY, MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL | Joanne Roney joined Manchester City Council as chief executive in 2017 and in her seven years in the city's top job has overseen major projects including the £5bn Victoria North regeneration scheme and Aviva Studios and led the authority's response to the Covid pandemic. She will join Birmingham City Council as managing director later this year.

DAVID PROCTOR, WIGAN COUNCIL | David is a planner by background, chartered for over 20 years. Having taken multiple local plans through the process & overseen the timely approval of some of the highest profile planning applications in the North West. He now also leads on a range of development, regeneration and infrastructure activity at Wigan Council. These include town centre Levelling Up programmes, heritage led regeneration schemes and major highway funding bids, working in partnership at all scales from local stakeholder groups to national agencies.

EUAN KELLIE, EUAN KELLIE PROPERTY SOLUTIONS | Euan, the company director has over 25 years’ experience mapping out planning strategies and advising clients such as Salboy International, Progressive Living, Step Places and THG on how to unlock sites through the planning system. A fellow of both the RTPI and the RICS, Euan is also the author of Rebuilding Manchester, which charts Manchester city centre’s recovery following the 1996 IRA bombing. Over his career, he has given lectures at various universities both on planning and on Manchester’s rebuilding and contributes regularly to industry discussions.

Annie Coombs is co-chair of Places Matter, the Northwest design review panel. She also undertakes and chairs design reviews as a Design Council Ambassador, member of the Highways England design panel and member and former vice chair of the HS2 independent design panel. She is also an examining inspector for major infrastructure projects. Previously she was an enabler for CABE supporting procurement for public realm and architectural commissions through design competitions and other routes and she prepared the landscape briefs for the Olympic Queen Elizabeth Park and sat on the selection panel. Annie is a landscape architect by profession. She started her career in the public sector in Liverpool and then London. She then worked in the private sector on large scale infrastructure projects schemes in Asia, where she lived for sixteen years. She was managing director for offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

John Searle, Salford John has over 25 years’ experience in the public and private sector in economic development and physical regeneration across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside with direct experience of implementing urban regeneration schemes and commercial property development. John joined Salford in November 2021 and is responsible for regeneration, property, development and investments, housing delivery, planning and building control, highways and technical services, operational services and employment and skills.

Emma Barton, currently Deputy Chief Executive (Place) at Oldham Council, has extensive experience as an inspiring leader with an impressive track record of delivering complex regeneration programmes and brings a strong strategic vision, which puts residents at the heart of service delivery and decision-making. Having led the Council’s ‘Creating a better place’ programme which pulled together a comprehensive vision to create a new plan and direction of travel for the borough, Emma was able to use corporate land and property to bring forward new homes and job opportunities for Oldham’s communities.

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Tickets cost £80+VAT.

Companies registered include MCI Developments, Dandara Living Developments, Browne Jacobson, Morgan Sindall Construction, JLL, Placefirst, Whittam Cox Architects, Buttress Architects, Fairhurst Architects, Chancerygate, Rochdale Development Agency, Lambert Smith Hampton, Deloitte, Vextrix, Struktura, Briggs & Forrester, Clancy Consulting, Pell Frischmann, Kuits Solicitors, Ridge, Pick Everard, Rothmore Property, Levitt Bernstein, Rider Levett Bucknall, Turley, Mosaic Town Planning, McGoff Group, DP Squared, Savills, Hatch, DMWR Architects, Roger Bullivant, Bennetts Associates, Harworth, McGuireWoods London, Brabners, Mott MacDonald, Luddon Construction, DLA Architecture, Turner & Townsend, Moorgarth, Ryder Architecture, Abacus, John F Hunt Regeneration, Bedford Advisory, Hive Homes, Ramboll, TSA Riley, Trafford Council, Curtins, One Heritage Group, and many more.

This event is sponsored by Euan Kellie Property Solutions, Wigan Council, JMW, Hydrock now Stantec, Placemarque and Places Matter

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