Event Summary
Place Homes 2013: in pictures
Place North West’s first major housing conference attracted a sell-out audience to City Tower in Manchester in February.
The event was sponsored by Hill Dickinson, PPS Group and the Livingcity Group of Companies .
Speakers included Deborah McLaughlin, director of the Homes & Communities Agency and Cheshire East Council’s housing manager Adrian Fisher. There was a spirited presentation from Jennie Daly, managing director of Harrow Estates, part of Redrow, which was many guests’ favourite speech of the day.
To see a selection of photographs from the day, click on the image gallery below. All images by Simon Pendrigh.
You can also download presentations from those speakers who were happy to share their thoughts outside the room by clicking here and here.
- Stephen Hogg of Jones Lang LaSalle
- Stephen Byfield from PPS Group
- Sam Stafford of Himor puts a question
- View from Red Room 1 in Floor 24 of City Tower
- Unbeatable views for an event space
- Conference chairman Paul Unger
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- Lunch was sponsored by Atkins
- Francis Glare of BDP makes a point
- There was plenty of time for networking
- Paul Smith of NJL Consulting with friend
- Nicola Kane from Peter Brett Associates
- Mark Gallimore of Livingcity answers a question
- John Roberts from Hill Dickinson
- Flashback: Jennie Daly speaking at a Place North West event back in 2013. Credit: PNW
- Eric Johnson of Paddock Johnson Partnership
- HCA director Deborah McLaughlin
- Deborah McLaughlin and Adrian Fisher of Cheshire East Council
- Adrian Fisher
- Ade Alao from Tameside Council with Bill Jennings of JDA Architects
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