Birmingham Big City Plan...what next - 13 July
2011
Women In Property were pleased to welcome Philip
Singleton, who presented an interesting
insight into the Birmingham Big City Plan, as well as an innovative
approach on how he would like to see Birmingham developed in
the future. Philip has spent the last 7 years at senior positions
in Birmingham City Council and the London Borough of Newham, and
was the Assistant Director for City Centre Development and the
Project Director for the Big City Plan. The event
was well attended, and Philip's proposed development approach
(which is based on a format used in Amsterdam, and centred round
the sales of lots of individual plots, rather than large scale
disposals to single developers) sparked a keen debate amongst
the attendees as so the benefits and drawbacks of how this could
work in practice.