Speakers include:
Chris Heaton Harris MP, Transport Minister
Dame Sarah Storey, Active Travel Commissioner, Sheffield City Region
Judith Bokhove, Vice Mayor, Rotterdam
Heidi Alexander, Deputy Mayor of London, Transport
Susan Claris, Associate Director, Transport Consulting Group in London, Arup
Anabel Gulías, Government Spokesperson and City Councillor for Promotion, Pontevedra City Council, Spain
Michael Matheson MSP, Minister – Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity Scottish Government
Eoin Devane, Senior Analyst at the UK Government’s Climate Change Committee
Rune Gjøs, Head of the Mobility Department, Agency for Urban Environment, City of Oslo
Lisa Hopkinson, Associate, Transport for Quality of Life
Thursday 18 March 2021 | 10:00 – 15:30
An online event brought to you by Living Streets, produced and hosted by City View
Every year Living Streets brings together decision-makers, influencers, campaigners and others who just love their streets to discuss ways of making our towns and cities better for walking.
Our 2021 Summit takes place on 18 March and we are making a virtue of the circumstances we find ourselves in and going online – and international.
The COVID-19 crisis has combined with a key quality of air ruling, child safety, health promotion and cycling issues to put the Living Streets agenda for a better planned and constructed local walking environment centre stage whilst highlighting key traffic management and public health issues.
- Hear how local plans have been put into practice by local government.
- Take away lessons that can be learned from cities around the world on how to build the local environment, improve public health and develop the walking infrastructure.
- Look at case studies on how to consult and build consent from local residents.
- Learn lessons from the design, build and rollouts of new schemes.
- See presentations from around the UK from nations and regions.
PROGRAMME (subject to change)
10.00 – 10.30: OPENING PLENARY
Welcome and introduction: Rt Hon Lord Michael Bates, President, Living Streets
Opening address: Chris Heaton Harris MP, Transport Minister
Walking – it works for everyone: Mary Creagh, Chief Executive, Living Streets
Questions from the online audience
10.30 -11.45: PLENARY TWO: Building alliances for walking and low traffic neighbourhoods
Chair’s introduction: Rt Hon Lord Michael Bates, President, Living Streets
Speakers:
Heidi Alexander, Deputy Mayor of London, Transport
Dafydd Trystan Davies, Chair, Active Travel Board in Wales
Julian Sanchez, Active Travel Manager, Essex County Council
Questions from the online audience
Panel discussion featuring above speakers plus:
Lee Craigie, Active Nation Commissioner, Transport Scotland
Questions from the online audience
11.45 – 12.00: INTERVAL
12.00 – 13.00 Ensuring clean air and improving public health – How can walking help tackle our climate emergency?
Chair: Mary Creagh, Chief Executive, Living Streets
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Anabel Gulías, Government Spokesperson and City Councillor for Promotion and Demetrio Gómez, Works Councillor, Pontevedra City Council, Spain
Eoin Devane, Senior Analyst at the UK Government’s Climate Change Committee
Lisa Hopkinson, Associate, Transport for Quality of Life
Dr Ian Mudway, Member of the Environmental Research Group, Imperial College London
Questions from the online audience
Panel discussion
Questions from the online audience
13.00 – 13.30: INTERVAL
13.30 – 14.00: Parallel Sessions
SESSION A: Schools’ case for walking & low traffic neighbourhoods
Dean Jeffreys, Director of Local Impact, Living Streets
Catherine McCoy, Living Streets coordinator for South Gloucestershire
Annie Harris, Head at Cadbury Heath Primary School and her pupils
SESSION B: Low traffic neighbourhood strategies in London
Stephen Edwards, Director of Policy and Communications, Living Streets
Sarah Berry, Lambeth Living Streets Group
David Harrison, London Living Streets Group
SESSION C: The role of walking programmes on workplace wellbeing
Stephen Jefford, Non-Executive Director Living Streets Services; former Group HRD, Phoenix Group
Janet Bray, Living Streets
Lucy Symonds, Corporate Responsibility Manager, Phoenix Group
Dan Barritt, Programme Manager, West Sussex County Council
14.00 – 15.30: City leadership creating living streets
Building back better. How city leaders are responding to air quality, public health, education, and the pandemic?
Chair: Dame Jane Roberts, Chair, Living Streets
KEYNOTE: Leadership and consent – Sheffield City Region’s approach to creating Living Streets
Dame Sarah Storey, Active Travel Commissioner, Sheffield City Region
KEYNOTE: Responding to the pandemic with smart city planning?
Judith Bokhove, Vice Mayor, Rotterdam
KEYNOTE: Oslo – a city for cycling and walking
Rune Gjøs, Head of the Mobility Department, Agency for Urban Environment, City of Oslo
KEYNOTE: The Planning challenge
Susan Claris, Associate Director, Transport Consulting Group in London, Arup
Panel discussion
Presentation of Living Streets’ Charles Maher Award – Walking Champion 2021
Closing remarks: Dame Jane Roberts, Chair, Living Street
15.30: National Walking Summit 2021 Closes
15.40 Living Streets AGM 2021
(Everyone is welcome to attend the AGM, but only Living Streets members can vote)
Chair: Dame Jane Roberts, Chair, Living Streets
ADDRESS: Rt Hon Lord Michael Bates, President, Living Streets
AGM Agenda will be sent directly to all members
16:30: Living Streets AGM 2021 closes
Who is this event for?
- Living Streets individual and corporate members
- Chairs of Education
- Chairs of Transport
- City planners
- Local Government environment officers
- Education Authorities
- Schools Governors, Chairs and Head Teachers.
- College Governors, Chief Execs and Principals
- Environmental and Air quality groups
- Academics & Think Tanks
- Environment, Transport and Education Charities & Campaigns
- Professional and Trade Association policy and research staff
SPONSORSHIP & CONTACT
For online exhibition or sponsorship details on National Walking Summit
Contact Karen Stewart on 0207 3244330 or karen.stewart@neilstewartassociates.co.uk
Conference Producer Karen Stewart: karen.stewart@neilstewartassociates.co.uk
Living Streets contact Ruth Billingham ruth.billingham@livingstreets.org.uk
