UK Living Series: UK Affordable Housing Conference

Where UK Housing Leaders Discuss Funding, Design And Delivery Solutions For Affordable Homes

To Be Held In London

Event Ended On: Tuesday December 2 2025

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Speakers and Panels

Keynote: Inside The 2025 Affordable Housing Market: Key Trends, Challenges And Opportunities Ahead

Alex Dawkins

Director of Acquisitions, Sage Homes

Moderator

Triya Maicha

Partner, Devonshires

The Investment And Financial Lens on Affordable Housing

The Role of Institutional and International Capital in Scaling Affordable Housing

Adrian D'Enrico

Managing Director, Social Housing, Atrato Group

Michael Pearson

CIO, HSPG

Cedric Bucher

CEO, Hearthstone Investments

Cath Webster

CEO, Thriving Investments

Shaun Grainger

Director – Residential Real Estate, WTW

Moderator

Mike Phillips

UK Editor, Bisnow

Addressing Demand and Affordability: Construction and Development Strategies

Exploring Strategies to Lower Costs, Accelerate Timelines, Streamline Delivery, and Deliver Higher-Quality Units

Paul Rickard

Chief Executive Officer, Pocket Living

Barbara Richardson

Managing Director, Square Roots

Sarah Pickard

Group Funding & Delivery Partner Director, Keepmoat Homes

Paul Ruddick

Founder and Chairman, Reds10

Moderator

Niki Kyriacou

Sector Lead, NHBC

Designing Affordable Homes for Place, People, and Planet

Creating Sustainable, High-Quality Communities Through Thoughtful Design and Placemaking

Matthew Lamb

Development Director, Dolphin Living

John Nordon

He spent the first 15 years of his professional career in London, working as an architect for a range of practices, including: founding the London studio of the Japanese practice Ushida Findlay; establishing his own practice IDE-A and becoming the Design Intelligence Leader for the Woods Bagot European Studio. He has worked on Residential, Workplace and Hospitality projects in the UK and globally in Japan, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Morocco, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Holland, Russia, Canada. In 2013 he crossed into development, spending 5 years helping establish Pegasus Life as their Design Director. As a start-up he created new products and approaches that challenged and reinvented the retirement housing sector, which has been reflected in being nominated for 28 Housing Design Awards and winning 10 for projects he led on there. In 2018 he became the Creative Director for Igloo Regeneration, the UK’s leading responsible developer where he applies design thinking into the property sector that goes beyond the traditional bricks and mortar approach, using co-creation and place-based strategies to help create the kind places that people can thrive in. During the pandemic he co-founded Neighbourhood with Lou Dawson and Duncan Blackmore to experiment with a different way of doing things – to see if, by approaching each project with curiosity and free of the pressure to impose a predetermined model, they could change the way development happens. He was a founding rider, board member and trustee of Cycle to MIPIM, helping to raise over £4 million for charity, particularly for the children’s charity Coram. He was a trustee of Coram’s Legal Centre from 2014 to 2017. He was an expert client for the UK Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2016. He was as Design Council Expert on housing between 2021-2023.

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Creative Director

John Nordon

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Karen Scurlock

Quality & Design Manager, Places for London

Ayna Azhigali

Director, HKR Architects

Nawale Abdous-Parker

Partner, Gardiner & Theobald LLP

Moderator

Jon Hammond

Head of Growth, Lette

Why Attend Bisnow’s Affordable Housing Event

What You’ll Learn:

Understand investor appetite: Hear how institutional and international capital is evolving through 2026 and shaping the UK’s affordable housing pipeline
Navigate funding and policy changes: Examine how government grants, planning frameworks and new regulations are impacting financial viability and investment risk
Tackle rising build costs: Learn how developers are managing construction inflation, material shortages and supply chain pressures while maintaining delivery timelines
Design smarter, build better: Discover how standardisation, placemaking and modular construction can balance cost efficiency with quality and compliance
Deliver lasting value: Explore best-practice design and development approaches that create safe, compliant, high-quality affordable homes with long-term community impact

How You’ll Do More Business: Connect with leading investors, developers, housing associations and local authorities to identify where scalable opportunities exist and how to structure partnerships that unlock them. Gain competitive insight into capital strategies, planning pathways and design solutions that reduce risk and enhance long-term value. Build relationships with stakeholders driving affordable housing delivery across the UK and learn how to align financial, regulatory and design priorities to move projects forward.

Relevant News And Developments:

Who You'll Meet: Owners, developers, investors, housing associations, architects, construction, designers, brokers, lawyers, financial institutions and government officials.

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Venue

Strand Palace Hotel
372 Strand
London WC2R 0JJ

Function room: Covent Garden Suite

Discover the newly refurbished Meetings & Events space at Strand Palace, unveiled in November 2025 after a multi-million-pound transformation to offer some of the most modern and versatile venues in central London.

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Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 8:55 AM	Breakfast, Registration And Networking
8:55 AM 9:00 AM	Welcome From Bisnow!
9:00 AM 9:20 AM	Keynote: Inside The 2025 Affordable Housing Market: Key Trends, Challenges And Opportunities Ahead
9:20 AM 10:05 AM	The Investment And Financial Lens On Affordable Housing What’s shaping the institutional appetite for affordable housing in 2025? How do current UK government grant frameworks and planning policies affect the financial viability of affordable housing deals? Is there a growing role for overseas capital in UK affordable housing, and what risks come with that?
10:05 AM 10:35 AM	Networking Break
10:35 AM 11:20 AM	Addressing Demand And Affordability: Construction And Development Strategies What is currently the most effective strategy to reduce per-unit development costs without compromising long-term asset quality? How are new land-led partnerships being structured to de-risk affordable housing starts? What are developers doing to deliver schemes without relying on modular supply chains?
11:20 AM 12:05 PM	Designing Affordable Homes For Place, People And Planet How can affordable housing be designed for long-term cost efficiency, not just short-term capex savings? What does ‘good design’ look like in the context of affordable housing, and how can we ensure it doesn’t become a budget casualty? What are the most cost-effective ways to hit net-zero and EPC targets through design choices, not just mechanical systems?
12:05 PM 12:35 PM	Post-Event Networking

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UK Living Series: UK Affordable Housing Conference

Where UK Housing Leaders Discuss Funding, Design And Delivery Solutions For Affordable Homes

To Be Held In London

Speakers and Panels