Regenerate Central South Annual Conference

Name: Regenerate Central South Annual Conference
Start: 2025-06-25
End: 2025-06-25
Location: AFC Bournemouth

Beyond ESG: Building a Resilient Central South

Environment, Social and Governance are the standards we should all be running our businesses by BUT is the reality of our work places still a long way from the theory?

At the Regenerate Central South Annual Conference, we will go beyond the jargon to explore the how and the why during a fascinating morning of discussion and interaction, where we will be looking at ESG in the wider context of how it can help us to shape a region that is attractive to new businesses and a place where established companies can thrive.

Our keynote speaker will be Catriona Riddell, Director of Catriona Riddell & Associates, and she will be guiding us through current government thinking in terms of strategic spatial planning.

While we may get distracted by matters such as devolution and local government reorganisation, we need to ensure the development we curate in the region is fit for purpose to attract the occupiers and employers that are needed in the region.

Regenerate Central South brings together stakeholders and investors around the Central South region in a bid to use exclusive industry expertise and knowledge to drive investment in the region. The private sector initiative promotes the development of sites at a national and international level to stimulate inward investment and showcases the quality of business and investment opportunities available in this part of the UK.

The conference is a fantastic opportunity for potential investors, developers, agents and consultants to debate the ambitions for the Central South region, ensuring that we retain competitiveness and productivity into the future as well as to hear what is happening in the region to partner the ambitions of the new devolved regions.

Event Speakers

Catriona Riddell

Director of Catriona Riddell & Associates

Catriona is an independent consultant providing support on a wide range of spatial planning issues but specialises in strategic planning, working with a large number of local authorities across England, helping them develop their approaches to strategic planning and establishing new governance arrangements.

She has authored three major publications on the subject of strategic planning and has contributed to several other national studies. Most recently, Catriona was part of a small team researching strategic planning practice, published by the Royal Town Planning Institute in September, and was a Commissioner on the Radix Big Tent report on housing, published in October.

She is currently Chairing a national Strategic Planning Group established by consultancy Prior & Partners, which is helping to develop thinking around a new generation of strategic plans.

Catriona is the Planning Officers Society’s Strategic Planning Specialist and Vice Chair of the Town and Country Planning Association.

In 2022 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Oxford Brookes University for her contribution to planning. She is a regular columnist for Planning Magazine and a Judge for both the Planning Magazine Awards and the RTPI South East Awards.