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Thursday 3 September 2026, 8:00 - 12:00

Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St, Manchester M2 3WS

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Greater Manchester Development Update 2026

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Arguably Place’s most popular conference, this event brings together the people shaping the future of the city region, regarded as the engine room of the Northern economy.

Experts from the public and private sectors will provide updates on transformative regeneration projects in places such as Stockport and Tameside, the latest insights on Manchester city centre’s much talked about office market, as well as lively debate on housing and transport topics.

Speakers confirmed include

Cllr Bev Craig

Cllr Bev Craig

Leader, Manchester City Council

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Chris Oglesby

chief executive officer, Bruntwood

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Chris Oglesby

chief executive officer, Bruntwood

Oglesby is chief executive officer of Bruntwood and Bruntwood SciTech, working at the company since 1991 and acting as CEO for over 25 years. He has overseen the growth of the business to one that owns over £1.5bn of commercial property across the city regions of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Leeds. Growing up in Manchester, Oglesby has a commitment to creating a city that thrives and has played an active role in many partnerships. These include Oxford Road Corridor Partnership, Manchester Business Sounding Board which he chairs, and as a founding member of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership. He is also a Trustee of The Oglesby Charitable Trust, which works with more than 40 community-based charities a year and has distributed over £30m.
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Christopher Katkowski

barrister, Kings Chambers

Tony Walsh, Senior Strategic Advisor, Investment & Advisory

Tony Walsh

senior strategic advisor, The National Wealth Fund

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Tony Walsh

senior strategic advisor, The National Wealth Fund

Walsh is senior strategic advisor for Local Authorities, providing guidance to senior leaders across major regional authorities. He is also co-head of Advisory, and responsible for The National Wealth Fund's wider Regional Project Accelerator initiative. Walsh is a strategic board advisor and green finance specialist with extensive experience in corporate banking and public-private partnerships. He spent 38 years at Barclays, including running the UK Corporate Bank, covering clients from SME to PLC with a particular emphasis on funding requirements in the private and public markets.
Tony Walsh, Senior Strategic Advisor, Investment & Advisory
Cllr Tom Ross(x)

Cllr Tom Ross

Leader, Trafford Council

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Colin Thomasson

executive director, investment, CBRE

Paul Eaton p, Allies and Morrison

Paul Eaton

partner, Allies and Morrison

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Paul Eaton

partner, Allies and Morrison

Eaton leads many of the practice’s masterplanning projects, guiding their early-stage visioning and strategy, developing character, grain, and connections for new pieces of city. Eaton has led masterplan teams for Sister Manchester, a new innovation campus in the heart of the city, in addition to the design of its first new commercial buildings. He is also leading the strategic masterplan for the regeneration of the 370-acre Trafford Wharfside as well as a range of the practice’s workplace, education and housing projects in London, Cambridge and Dublin.
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Laura Blakey p, GMCA

Laura Blakey

director of strategic finance & investment, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

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Laura Blakey

director of strategic finance & investment, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Laura Blakey is the director of strategic finance & investment at Greater Manchester Combined Authority where she oversees the deployment of Greater Manchester’s own investment funds, with direct experience of investing across a broad range of public and private sector schemes and initiatives. Blakey is a Chartered Accountant and prior to the GMCA worked at KPMG for 13 years.
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Rebecca Coley

head of planning & development, Trafford Council

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Jon Suckley

managing partner, Asteer Planning

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Jon Suckley

managing partner, Asteer Planning

Suckley graduated from the University of Manchester with a Masters in Town and Country Planning in 2003 and began his career at the former Macclesfield Borough Council (now Cheshire East Council). He joined HOW Planning in 2005 where he became a Partner in 2013 and an Equity Partner in 2017. Following the sale of HOW Planning in 2018, he became a senior director at Avison Young until 2021. Jon founded Asteer Planning in April 2021.
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Companies that attended this event in 2025

AECOM, Allies & Morrison, Browne Jacobson, Carter Jonas, CBRE, Cundall, DeSimone, DLA Architecture, Emery Planning, Eric Wright Group, Galliford Try, Gleeds, Hatch, Hilson Moran, Homes England, Iceni Projects, JLL, jmarchitects, Jacobs, McLaren Construction Group, Mills & Reeve, Morgan Sindall Construction, Onward Homes, Pell Frischmann, Pinsent Masons, Ramboll, Savills, SimpsonHaugh, Willmott Dixon, WSP and many more.

Tickets cost £125+VAT. Local authorities and registered providers can purchase tickets at a 50% discount.

There will be a mix of presentations and panels. Breakfast and lunch are included, providing plenty of opportunity for business development.

Book using the form below – if you can’t see the form, please contact [email protected]

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