Regenerate Central South Conference

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

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.

At our 10th Regenerate Central South Conference, we will build upon the success of previous events which annually attract over 200 investors and developers. Business South is working closely with both the public and private sector to attract more stakeholders into the area and to showcase our current offer.

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.

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.