This session will explore how regenerative thinking can reshape the built environment, highlighting the social, environmental and economic benefits of this approach, as well as the challenges. Our Senior Consultant, Zoe Watson, is part of the panel.

• Chair: Julia Barfield, Director Marks Barfield and Steering Group Member - Architects Declare
• Speaker: Leonora Grcheva, Cities and Regions Lead - Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL)
• Oliver Broadbent, Founder - Constructivist and author of The Pattern Book for Regenerative Design
• Zoe Watson, Senior Consultant - Bioregional and Trustee and Steering Group Member - Architects Declare

Planning Inspectors are accepting higher standards for where and how to build in local authority Local Plans as they can now provide an evidence base. Leaders in the field are calling for these higher standards to be adopted nationally, while developers would like one set of metrics and a simpler, more efficient system. How can these supposedly conflicting needs be met?

• Sue Riddlestone OBE, CEO & co-founder Bioregional (session chair)
• Lewis Knight, Director of Sustainable Places Bioregional
• Local Authority representative (TBC)

Systematic approaches are essential if we are going to meet our sustainability and social value goals. In this session, sector leaders will share approaches they have taken at the project, portfolio, corporate and national sector level with presentations followed by a 15 -minute panel discussion and Q&A with the audience.

• Sue Riddlestone OBE, CEO & co-founder, Bioregional (session chair)

• Syreeta Bayne, Head of Social Value and Sustainability, Muse Places. Why we need systems thinking, and how this has been applied at Muse Places.

• Future Homes Hub (speaker TBC). The systematic approach taken at the Hub, a network of UK homebuilders and supply chain.