Land Talks #6: Start-Up Nation, Doubling Homebuilding & The Battersea Job

🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck
Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing in decades to unlock our most limited resource. Is it any wonder houses are unaffordable, productivity has stalled and social mobility has flatlined?
Co-founded by Francis Irving, co-creator of TheyWorkForYou, and Henry Morris, founder of the social mobility charity upReach, Land Talks is a series of evenings to inspire and connect high-agency people to reimagine land for everyone’s benefit.
⚡Lightning Talks, Lasting Ideas
Each evening features six sharp, informative and inspirational lightning talks. The six brilliant speakers and their provocative talks booked for the sixth evening of Land Talks are:
🌄 Ours Now: How Stroud Bought Its Own Valley by Emma Kernahan

🌻 Crowded Island: The Government’s Land Plan That You Don’t Have to Follow by Ted Theisinger

⁠⁠🚪 From Fed Up to Front Door: Starting a Housing Co-op in London by Ruby Sleigh

☁️ Start-Up Nation: Inside The Movement Buying Sovereignty, One Parcel of Land at a Time by Isabelle Castro

🚦 Go/Stop: The Planning Policy That Doubled Homebuilding – Then Was Scrapped by Maurice Lange

🚇 The Battersea Job: How London Pulled Off Its First Tube Extension in 22 Years by Bill Chen

📋 How the Evening Will Run
Arrive from 6.00 p.m.
Three talks plus questions: 6.30 p.m.
Finger food: 7.00 p.m.
Three talks plus questions: 7.45 p.m.
Chat with your fellow groundbreakers as long as you like!
👯 Join the Groundbreakers
Whether you’re an analyst, policy wonk, programmer, policymaker, activist, or simply passionate about a brighter, more abundant future, join us at the sixth Land Talks to make Britain’s land system work harder for everyone’s benefit. In the meantime, find out more at landtalks.org.