ONLINE CONFERENCE Scotland’s Housing to 2040: Delivering on the Scottish Government’s Vision

AGENDA

09:25 Chair's Opening Remarks
Allan Lundmark, Board Member, Eildon Housing Association
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Session One: Understanding Scotland’s Strategic Objectives and Key Drivers in Housing

09:30 Keynote Address: Housing to 2040 - What’s the plan?

• What should our homes and communities be like by 2040?
• Scotland’s housing system re-imagined
• Delivering on the big four - volume, adaptations, energy efficiency and improvements
• Achieving a whole systems approach – what is required?

09:50 Question and Answer Session

10:00 Net Zero and Scottish Housing
Professor Sean Smith,  Professor of Future Construction and Director of Centre for Future Infrastructure, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
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• District and communal heating
• Energy efficiency
• Energy retrofitting
• Heat decarbonisation
• Renewable and low carbon heating

10:20 Question and Answer Session

10:30 Comfort Break

Session Two: Funding, Building and Affording

10:45 Market Interventions - Regulation and Subsidy

• What market intervention currently looks like in Scotland
• Airbnb, the private rented sector and housing supply
• Scottish Housing Regulation - what’s the right balance?
• Supporting first time buyers

11:00 Delivering Investment in Scottish Housing

• The public investment curve - what does it look like and where is it going?
• The Scottish National Investment Bank
• The role of the Green Investment Portfolio
• Can we have housing investment at scale that delivers affordability and sustainability?

11:15 Affordability for All – The Whole Cost Picture for Housing
Dr John Boyle, Director of Research and Strategy, Rettie & Co
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• The pattern in house price and home rental costs - where the housing market is headed
• Energy costs and housing affordability
• Council tax - fair, sustainable and affordable?

11:30 Question and Answer Session

11:50 Comfort Break

Session Three: Planning, Delivery and Sustainability

12:05 The Central Role of Planning in Delivery
Stefano Smith FRTPI, Director, Stefano Smith Planning
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• What will National Planning Framework 4 mean for housing?
• Delivering on housing supply and emissions reduction
• Development - how and where will it take place to 2040?

12:20 Local Housing Strategies

• Are our local housing strategies fit for purpose?
• Aligning national objectives, local strategies and community engagement
• Turning paper strategies into bricks and mortar - what is required?

12.35 Transformation in Housing - The Context of Place

• Place and Place-Based Principles in Housing
• Housing, Sustainable Regeneration and Place
• Delivering housing as though whole systems mattered

12:50 Question and Answer Session

13:10 Chair's Closing Remarks
Allan Lundmark, Board Member, Eildon Housing Association
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