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Speaker Presentations: The Future of British High Streets: Supporting the Recovery from Covid-19

Thank you for attending The Future of British High Streets: Supporting the Recovery from Covid-19.

We hope you found the day informative and interesting. Presentations are now available on this page and recordings of the sessions will be available here in the next 24 hours, please bookmark or otherwise save this page so that you are able to return.

Graham Galpin MSc FIPM, Placechanager, Member of the Expert Advisory Panel on High Streets

Matt Vickers MP (Stockton South), Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group for Retail

Professor Cathy Parker, Co-Chair, Institute of Place Management
You can see more about Cathy’s work here: www.highstreetstaskforce.org.uk
Use this link to find out more about the International Place Management and Place Leadership Community: www.placemanagement.org

Clive Hall, Chief Operating Officer, Place Informatics 

Ben Ward-Cochrane, Industry Manager, Local Government, Huq Industries

Alice Taylor, Councillor – Kirkley Ward, Lowestoft Town Council 

Carol Pyrah, Executive Director, Historic Coventry Trust 

Tim Drayton, Service Delivery Manager, PFM Footfall Intelligence 

Sharon Strutt, Head of Regeneration, London Borough of Redbridge 

Chris Wade, Director, The People and Places Partnership

Conrad Poulson, Chief Executive Officer, Huq Industries

Recordings of the day’s sessions are available below:

  • Morning Session 1 – starts at 10:15
    • Graham Galpin MSc FIPM, Placechanager, Member of the Expert Advisory Panel on High Streets
    • Matt Vickers MP (Stockton South), Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group for Retail 
    • Professor Cathy Parker, Co-Chair, Institute of Place Management
    • Clive Hall, Chief Operating Officer, Place Informatics

  • Morning Session 2 – starts at 8:55
    • Mark Robinson, Chair, High Streets Task Force
    • Bill Grimsey, Author, The Grimsey Review
    • Helen Dickinson OBE, Chief Executive, British Retail Consortium
    • Ben Ward-Cochrane, Industry Manager, Local Government, Huq Industries

  • Afternoon Session 1 – starts at 9:30
    • Alice Taylor, Councillor – Kirkley Ward, Lowestoft Town Council
    • Carol Pyrah, Executive Director, Historic Coventry Trust 
    • Tim Drayton, Service Delivery Manager, PFM Footfall Intelligence

  • Afternoon Session 2 – starts at 8:55
    • Sharon Strutt, Head of Regeneration, London Borough of Redbridge
    • Chris Wade, Director, The People and Places Partnership
    • Conrad Poulson, Chief Executive Officer, Huq Industries