Local to Regional Sustainability Forum
07/03/2008 14:44The third annual Local to Regional Sustainability Forum for the South West was held on
Thursday, 6th March 2008 
The Winter Gardens, Weston-super-Mare
The event was aimed at local leaders, planners, officers and regeneration agencies seeking to deliver genuinely sustainable communities with a particular focus on urban growth areas and the role of greenspace
This event offered the opportunity to:
• clarify your vision for a sustainable community and explore whether it is genuinely sustainable
• be inspired by best practice – whether it’s delivering large scale sustainable communities from
scratch or making existing communities more sustainable
• put forward your comments or questions to senior representatives of key regional agencies
• explore and share ideas on the role of greenspace within urban areas
• celebrate award winning examples of urban greenspace in the region
Speakers included:
George Ferguson (Acanthus, Ferguson and Mann architects): keynote speaker, on the reality of developing, genuinely sustainable, resilient communities
Keith Budden (Be Birmingham, Birmingham LSP): on Birmingham’s approach to applying environmental sustainability as a cross-cutting principle across their LAA
Sandra Rothwell (South West Regional Development Agency): on the RDA’s approach to building resilient sustainable communities
Leslie Watson (Sustainability South West): on emerging best practice with the region’s local authorities and on the role of urban greenspace in the wider sustainability context
Naresh Giangrande (Transition Towns): on urban greenspace – the key to our sustainable, resilient future
Jochen Rabe (Arup): on European and Asian urban greenspace examples – what the region can learn
The full programme is available on the Local to Regional page in the Projects area of this site.
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