Thursday 1st February 2018
QEII Centre, London SW1P 3EE
In its 13th year the Government Property 2018 conference will once again feature senior figures from a range of government departments, local authorities and the wider public sector.
Government Property 2018
Thursday 1st February 2018, QEII Centre, London SW1P 3EE
In its 13th year the Government Property 2018 conference will once again feature senior figures from a range of government departments, local authorities and the wider public sector.
The anticipated 300+ delegates will benefit from a closer understanding of government’s estate strategy and will learn more about the funding options available which will affect the future of publicly owned and managed land and property.
Ideally suited to the interests and responsibilities of all public sector property professionals the key subject matter will examine the practical steps to realising the new look estate, which will kick-start regeneration, encourage house building, break down barriers to cross-sector working and deliver real financial benefit at local, regional and national levels.
Main themes which will be explored in the 2018 conference will be:
Government Property 2018 will provide delegates with a unique opportunity to hear from and question expert speakers from across the public and private sectors, engage with solution providers and to build and renew networks with their peers. We look forward to welcoming friends old and new.
Following the final end of day round up session there will be a drinks reception in the exhibition area. This is a great way to unwind with other delegates and speakers to discuss the days events.
Thursday 1st February, QEII Centre, London SW1P 3EE
09:30 – 11:00 Plenary session
Conference Chair, Melanie Leech CBE, Chief Executive, British Property Federation
Mike Parsons, Director General, Government Property, Cabinet Office
Ian Playford, CEO, Shadow Government Property Agency
Liz Peace, Chair, Shadow Government Property Agency
Rt Hon Charles Clarke, on behalf of DAC Beachcroft
Graham Dalton, CEO Defence Infrastructure Organisation, MoD
Following a refreshment break the day continues with work sessions on subject such as, but not limited to:
11:30 – 12:10 Work sessions (delegates choose one)
1A Public-Private Partnerships – new ways of working together
Exploring the plenary presentation in further detail and inviting audience participation to discuss the themes which are of the most importance to public sector. Themes to be discussed include:
A panel of speakers including:
Chair, Michael Peeters, Partner, DAC Beachcroft
Melanie Leech CBE, Chief Executive, British Property Federation
Rt Hon Charles Clarke
Anne Crofts, Partner, DAC Beachcroft
Tom Roberts, Head of Infrastructure Advisory, BDO
1B Estate optimisation
We will draw on our combined experience to provide an informative and evidence based session on how public sector estates can be optimised: through service-led reviews, innovative partnership arrangements, delivery and funding mechanisms and proactive asset management.
Alexandra Houghton, Partner, Carter Jonas
Andy Pack, Director, 31ten Consulting
12:20 – 13:00 Work sessions (delegates choose one)
2A GPA: opening for business
This session will look at: Why the service is unique; What services are on offer to departments and; How departments will benefit.
Anna Dunne, NPM Services Procurement, Government Property Unit
Gary Howes, Partner, Montagu Evans
Alasdair Vaux, GPA Alliance Director, CBRE
2B Maximising public estate development opportunities – featuring the Defence Infrastructure Organisation
The public sector has an unprecedented opportunity to deliver key real estate projects that can help deliver fresh opportunities across the UK, helping to maximise revenues, create jobs and drive efficiencies.
In this 40 minute panel session, The DIO (Defence Infrastructure Organisation) will set out their strategic approach to one of the most complex and challenging estates management programmes in the UK. Capita plc, working with the Head Office and Front Line Commands (FLCs), developed the MOD Footprint Strategy.
This plan was announced in November 2016. The goal of the strategy to develop an approved delivery plan, along with a strategic 2040 laydown for the Defence Estate ensuring it achieves the MOD’s objective of delivering a significantly smaller but significantly better estate with the aim of reducing the footprint by 30%.
This rationalisation and estate transformation programme recognises the crucial role of infrastructure in efficiently and effectively enabling military capability through providing the Armed Forces with the fit for purpose estate they require to live, work, train and deploy. This will constitute the largest estate rationalisation programme since World War II and will also contribute land for 55,000 housing units during this Parliament.
In addition to providing a fascinating picture of the ground-breaking work being undertaken by the DIO, the panel will consider how new investment and fund structures can assist local authorities in enabling a new approach to investment, as well as accelerate land release for much needed housing.
The panel will also consider how “footprint” and asset audits can provide a new perspective on releasing value – not through land and property sales but also through improved utilisation and targeted investment.
A question and answer session will follow with the audience.
Chair: Richard McCarthy, Executive Director, Capita
Robert Stone, Head of Estates, Asset Strategy and Portfolio: Defence Infrastructure Organisation, MoD
Paul Clark, Director of Development, GL Hearn, Part of Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure
Stewart Murray, Head of Development Group, GL Hearn, Part of Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure
Sameer Shrestha, Associate Director, Property & Workplace Consulting, Capita
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch and networking
13:45 – 14:25 Work sessions (delegates choose one)
3A One Public Estate – successful collaboration for efficiently managing public assets
This discussion will explore the work of the One Public Estate programme, jointly delivered by Cabinet Office and the Local Government Association. The session will reflect on how a collaborative approach is helping the public sector make smarter use of property, improving services for citizens and generating efficiencies for local and central government.
Angela Harrowing, Programme Director, Asset Efficiency and One Public Estate, Government Property Unit
Brian Reynolds, Programme Director, Local Government Association
Cathal Rock, Programme Manager, Land Release Fund, MHCLG
3B Social value and placemaking: how to add value
Delivering social value through public sector procurement is becoming increasingly important, and is a way in which the public sector can provide that little bit more value for money.
As a supplier of real estate services we recognise that the delivery of such services can demonstrably improve social, economic and environmental outcomes for the local community. We therefore use specific tools, such as the social value portal, to provide a standardised approach to targeting priority areas of economic, societal and environmental benefit. This will ensure that these areas are appropriately considered and accounted for enabling the social value opportunity to be quantified.
Closely aligned to social value is Placemaking, where the most successful places are not “made”, but evolve organically in response to how people behave in the built environment. Our role as place makers is to be able to successfully respond creatively and commercially to the changing relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit.
The approach should be a shared enterprise that transcends the worlds of architecture, design and planning where communities, government, landowners and businesses all have a role to play in creating great places for people.
Denizer Ibrahim, Director, Special Projects and Placemaking, BNP Paribas Real Estate
14:35 – 15:15 Work sessions (delegates choose one)
4A Local Authority investment – opportunity and challenge
Public sector bodies are looking at real estate investment as a route to generate income as they are being pushed towards greater self-sufficiency. Local Authorities are at the forefront of this change and this session explores the challenges and opportunities that arise in the new world and how Local Authorities are responding.
John Tatham, Senior Director, GVA
4B RE:FIT – Driving pace and scale in energy and property transformation
Having leveraged over £180m of investment in energy and property transformation projects to date, RE:FIT is the multi award winning programme supporting the public sector estate in becoming more energy efficient. This interactive session explores best practice and latest thinking for driving pace and scale in energy-led estates transformation with guaranteed savings.
Dr Sylvia Baron, Programme Manager, RE:FIT London Programme
Jon Spring, Commercial & Technical Delivery Director, RE:FIT Programme Delivery Unit
Mark Williams, PA Director
Richard McWilliams, Director, RE:FIT Programme Delivery Unit
15:15 – 15:45 Refreshments and networking
15:45 Closing Panel and Q&A followed by drinks reception
Panel Chaired by Melanie Leech CBE, Chief Executive, British Property Federation
Ian Playford, CEO, Shadow Government Property Agency
Robert Stone, Head of Estates, Asset Strategy and Portfolio, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, MoD
John Tatham, Senior Director, GVA
Following the final session there will be a drinks reception in the exhibition area. This is a great chance to unwind and network with fellow delegates, speakers and exhibitors. The drinks reception has been kindly sponsored by Canary Wharf Group
17:30 Conference close
Speakers, agenda and timings may be subject to change
Thursday 1st February, QEII Centre, London SW1P 3EE
Conference Chair, Melanie Leech CBE,
Chief Executive, British Property Federation
Melanie joined the British Property Federation as Chief Executive in January 2015, following nine years as Director General of the Food and Drink Federation.
Melanie began her working life as a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police Service. She joined the civil service (HM Customs) in 1988 and subsequently held senior roles in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Office of the Rail Regulator and the Cabinet Office. Her role is to champion UK real estate and to promote a long-term, sustainable partnership between governments and the sector to deliver a high quality built environment, and to create wealth.
Melanie is a Fellow of the RSA. In 2015, she was awarded a CBE for services to the food and drink industry.
Rt Hon Charles Clarke, on behalf of DAC Beachcroft
Charles Clarke was Member of Parliament for Norwich South from 1997 to 2010. He served as Education Minister from 1998 and then in the Home Office from 1999 to 2001. He then joined the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party Chair. From 2002 to 2004 he was Secretary of State for Education and Skills and then Home Secretary until 2006.
Charles was previously Chief of Staff to Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Opposition and a councillor in the London Borough of Hackney, chairing the housing committee.
He now holds Visiting Professorships at Lancaster University and Kings College London and works with educational organisations internationally. In 2011 the Centre for European Reform published his ‘The EU and Migration: A Call for Action’. In 2014 he published ‘The Too Difficult Box’, an analysis of the problems which need to be overcome in promoting change, and in September 2015 two studies in political leadership, ‘British Labour Leaders’ and ‘British Conservative Leaders’; in 2015 he wrote, with Professor Linda Woodhead, “A New Settlement, Religion and Belief in Schools”.
Mr Clarke read mathematics and economics at Kings College Cambridge and was then President of the National Union of Students. Born in 1950, Mr Clarke married in 1984. He and his wife Carol have two sons.
www.charlesclarke.org
Graham Dalton, CEO Defence Infrastructure Organisation, MoD
Graham Dalton is a chartered civil engineer and fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering with 35 years’ experience planning, building and operating large scale infrastructure. His professional training was with British Railways before he joined consulting engineer Mouchel, where he spent 7 years designing ports and power stations in the Middle and Far East.
Graham returned to the rail industry during the privatisation process, where he worked for Program Manager Bovis on multi – discipline railway signalling and enhancement contracts. From 2001 to 2008 he worked as a director of the Strategic Rail Authority and then Department for Transport taking major rail projects through the development and consents processes.
In 2008 Graham was appointed Chief Executive of the Highways Agency, responsible for the operation, maintenance and improvement of the strategic road network in England. He also made the case for and then led the change to incorporation of the Agency in 2015 as Highways England Ltd.
In October 2016 Graham was appointed Chief Executive of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation. His vision is to build DIO into a strong professional estate services business, providing clear advice on managing and developing the military estate and then delivering a full range of estate management and capital improvement programmes. This is a long term change programme for DIO and for its customers.
Mike Parsons, Director General Government Property, Cabinet Office
Mike previously held the role Director General, Capabilities and Resources at the
Home Office.
Joining the Home Office in February 2013, Mike led the review of management structures which resulted in the consolidation of corporate functions within the department.
He has extensive experience in local government in Hertfordshire County Council as Director of Resources and Performance where he led the council’s ambitious transformation programme, and as Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Resources at Cambridgeshire County Council.
Mike studied Natural Sciences and Computer Science at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, before qualifying as an accountant (CIPFA). He has held a number of executive and non-executive positions in the wider public and charitable sector.
Liz Peace, Chair, Shadow Government Property Agency
Liz Peace has more than 35 years’ experience in government and the property sector. She was Chief Executive of the British Property Federation and has also been Honorary President of the Property Litigation Association, Chair of the Centre for London think tank and Chair of the Shadow Government Property Agency.
Ian Playford, Chief Executive, Shadow Government Property Agency
Ian has 25 years of international Real Estate experience and has been qualified as a Chartered Surveyor since 1992. He has recently held a portfolio of roles including Non-Executive Director for HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) and Real Estate Advisor for the Aspen Insurance Group. He is also Board Advisor at Kingsbridge Estates Ltd. His most recent executive role was as the new Group Property Director for Kingfisher and he has previously held senior executive roles at Parkridge Holdings, Aviva and Jones Lang La Salle. He has a wealth of experience in the field of corporate real estate and investment management.
Dr Sylvia Baron, Programme Manager, RE:FIT London Programme
Sylvia manages the RE:FIT programme, London’s award-winning and internationally-recognised programme to help make London’s public buildings and assets more energy efficient. Sylvia has over 15 years experience working in the energy sector, in particular sustainable and renewable energy and energy efficiency. Prior to working for the Greater London Authority, Sylvia worked for Which?, the Energy Saving Trust and various clean energy start-ups and trade associations.
Paul Clark, Director of Development, GL Hearn, Part of Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure
Paul Clark MRTPI MRICS is a Director at GL Hearn, part of Capita Real Estate, and leads the Development Consultancy and Agency team. His team advises a wide range of land owners and institutions on the release and delivery of land for development. Current clients include local authorities, NHS Trusts, pension funds and charities. Paul also provides support to private investors and developers with site assembly strategies and regeneration.
In many instances Paul’s advice centres on how land owners may create the investment conditions that also help to meet broader social and corporate objectives. Examples include the creation of long-term income streams, placemaking and reducing operational liabilities. Some key clients include the London Borough of Barnet, Royal London, St Mungo’s and Associated British Ports.
Anne Crofts, Partner, DAC Beachcroft
Anne has nearly 30 years’ experience advising on commercial issues relevant to the health sector. She has been involved in all the major NHS reorganisations since 1990 and has advised on some of the most innovative joint venture and collaborative arrangements and partnerships between NHS and independent providers and across public sector boundaries including health and social care. Anne leads the DAC Beachcroft LLP health commercial team and provides strategic advice to clients on structuring collaborations, legal powers, procurement, contracting and governance.
Anna Dunne, NPM Services Procurement, Government Property Unit
Angela Harrowing, Programme Director. Asset Efficiency and One Public Estate, Government Property Unit
Angela joined the civil service in 2004. Angela has worked in a number of policy areas at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (formerly DCLG), including housing, local growth, local government, planning and community rights. She has also spent time on secondment to KPMG, one of the ‘big 4’ auditors, as a management consultant.
Angela has worked in the Government Property Unit for 3 years. She directs the One Public Estate programme, a joint initiative with the Local Government Association, which supports collaboration across central and local government on asset and property management to improve services, deliver growth and achieve efficiencies. Angela also leads the GPU’s Asset Efficiency team, which is at the heart of work to embed better asset management across government, providing support and challenge to departments to help them to release surplus land.
Alexandra Houghton, Partner, Carter Jonas
Alexandra is a Partner at Carter Jonas with a long history of public sector property consultancy. She leads the Consultancy & Strategy team, based in London and Oxford, where she provides strategic advice to both public and private sector clients, focusing on the delivery of solutions to business needs through estate change.
Alexandra undertakes option appraisals, financial modelling, estate strategies, property asset management plans and the preparation and delivery of HM Treasury Green Book compliance Business Cases for a range of clients. The majority of her clients are within the public sector including local authorities, central government bodies, charities and others such as health and blue light through One Public Estate initiatives. Alexandra spent two years at the MoD, assisting on its UK-wide property rationalisation and transformation projects and has recently been assisting Hertfordshire County Council with the procurement of a Joint Venture development partner. Alexandra is a member of Carter Jonas’ Commercial Board and an APC assessor. She was recently nominated for the RICS Mentor of the Year award.
T: 020 7518 3225
E: alexandra.houghton@carterjonas.co.uk
W: www.carterjonas.co.uk/property-consultancy-and-strategy
Gary Howes, Partner, Montagu Evans
Denizer Ibrahim, Director, Special Projects and Placemaking, BNP Paribas Real Estate
Denizer joined the BNP Paribas Real Estate team in January 2017 as Director of Special Projects and Placemaking.
A graduate from the London School of Economics with a creative background in urban design, retail and start-up business, Denizer began his career as part of the Special Projects team at London based tech start up Appear Here, the leading global online marketplace for pop up shops. At BNP Paribas Real Estate, Denizer is part of a newly formed Consultancy arm within the retail team. Denizer will drive a first of its kind division focused on advising landlords on their Placemaking strategy, Commercial masterplanning delivery and how this can drive the longer term development goals.
Previous clients include: Transport For London, AEW, Aberdeen Standard, Arcadia, Network Rail, Calderdale Council
Denizer Ibrahim, BA (Hons), MSc (LSE)
Director,
Special Projects and Placemaking
BNP Paribas Real Estate
5 Aldermanbury Square,
London, EC2V 7BP
Tel: +44 (0)207 338 4357
Mob: +44 (0) 07469 403 333
denizer.ibrahim@bnpparibas.com
Richard McCarthy, Executive Director, Capita
Richard brings insight and leadership to our engagement with Central and Local Government and drives integrated solutions to real estate, property and infrastructure opportunities.
As a former Director General at DCLG, he was responsible for housing, planning, commercial property and local economic growth and former housing association Chief Executive (including Peabody Trust). He leads our work and engagement with Central Government and provides executive leadership to support and integrate our services to local government and the wider public sector. At Capita he led the successful bid to be the Strategic Business Partner to the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and then became the DIO Chief Executive for the initial period of the contract. He also sits on the Capita Group Real Estate Board and he received a CBE in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to housing and planning.
Richard McWilliams, Director, RE:FIT Programme Delivery Unit
Richard, a senior Director of our London based specialist technology team, will lead our Innovation team. As noted above, Richard will leverage his experience of RE:NEW and Innovate UK with his panel of specialist advisers to identify challenges and opportunities in the public sector retrofit market, generating, developing and testing ideas/solutions and integrating those practical solutions into our core service to drive enhanced volumes of retrofit.
Stewart Murray, Head of Development Group, GL Hearn, Part of Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure
Andy Pack, Director, 31ten Consulting
Andy is a specialist advisor to the public and private sector with more than 20 years knowledge and practice of strategic and financial advisory services before he co-founded 31ten Consulting.
He is a leading advisor in the Local Government sector with a wide range of specialist experience including the development of innovative models for the funding and delivery of housing and mixed use development, utilising his strong understanding of the way local authorities can better use their assets and powers to drive forward development and regeneration. He also has developed and implemented a variety of housing and infrastructure funding and delivery models with clients in the public and private sectors including the use of Wholly Owned Companies, Enterprise Zone mechanisms, Revolving Investment Funds and utilised Business Rates Retention approaches to fund major infrastructure programmes.
Andy also has extensive experience of developing joint ventures and other structured solutions with the public and private sectors with particular expertise in advising risk and reward transfer and developing and implementing strategies to plug funding gaps in local authority development programmes.
T: 07808 482750
E: andy.pack@31tenconsulting.co.uk
W: www.31tenconsulting.co.uk/
Michael Peeters, Partner, DAC Beachcroft
Brian Reynolds, Programme Director, One Public Estate, Local Government Association
Brian Reynolds has been responsible for running the One Public Estate programme on behalf of the Cabinet Office and the Local Government Association since 2013. This is a pan-public sector asset rationalisation programme, expanded nationally in the Chancellor’s 2015 Autumn Statement, aimed at freeing up public sector land to help deliver more integrated public services, and land for housing and jobs.
OPE now covers 90% of English Local Authorities, and the sixth phase launched in April 2017 for the first time include a capital allocation from DCLG’s Land Release Fund.
Previously, Brian was Deputy Chief Executive at LB Barnet for 10 years, where he set up and ran that Authority’s regeneration programme. Together with the huge £4.2bn mixed use redevelopment at Brent Cross/Cricklewood, it remains one of the largest local authority led regeneration programmes anywhere in the country. He was also responsible for Environment, Planning, and Housing, and with some 30 years local authority experience, remains an expert in the housing and regeneration fields.
Tom Roberts, Head of Infrastructure Advisory, BDO
Cathal Rock, Programme Manager, Land Release Fund, MHCLG
Sameer Shrestha, Associate Director, Property & Workplace Consulting, Capita
Sameer is a senior executive with a track record of delivering high value property strategic advice and workplace management services to British Airways, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), States of Jersey, Barnet Council, BBC, Network Rail, Oxfordshire County Council and Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
As part of Capita’s 10-year contract that started in 2013 with London Borough of Barnet to deliver range of services for the Council including corporate programmes, customer services, estates, finance, human resources and payroll, information systems, procurement, revenues and benefits, Sameer ran ‘Agile Working Programme’ for the Council’s c2000 employees to understand staff activity to develop space budget for fit for purpose office buildings in Barnet.
Sameer was part of the successful bid team in Capita for being selected Strategic Business Partner (SBP) by Ministry of Defence (MOD) to run DIO from Sep 2014. He is currently running a series of rationalisation programme for DIO to optimise their estates and deliver significant savings on their on-going property operating costs. His recent work led to the optimisation of MOD’s Strategic Headquarter (Main Building) in Whitehall to release two of the eight floors of this building by December 2016 for rent paying two Central Government Departments. This has led to efficient and sustainable utilisation of the Main Building, which will also be helping MOD to meet the Government’s building utilisation and workspace density targets whilst protecting defence outputs, notably the department of state and strategic military HQ functions.
Jon Spring, Commercial & Technical Delivery Director, RE:FIT Programme Delivery Unit
Jon is a facilities management consultant and whole life specialist with over 25 years of experience in Business Case production, product optioneering and value engineering, partnering and service contracts, Project Management delivery, Facilities Management and technical adviser roles, whole life economics and whole life costing. Jon has led the current RE:FIT benchmarking team from 2011 and has direct experience of over 100 energy portfolio analyses.
Robert Stone, Head of Estates, Asset Strategy and Portfolio, Defence Infrastructure Organisation
John Tatham, Senior Director, GVA
John Tatham joined GVA in 2017 to lead on investment management for the public sector, creating partnerships between public and private sector and finding solutions for funding large scale development and regeneration projects across the UK. John was previously with igloo Regeneration, the East Midlands Development Agency, Deloitte, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Bass PLC and Thorntons PLC.
Alasdair Vaux, GPA Alliance Director, CBRE
Mark Williams FCA CPFA, PA Director, RE:FIT Programme
Mark leads for PA on Property & Infrastructure drawing on over 20 years of finance, commercial and business case experience. Mark is a Chartered Accountant specialising in the financial and commercial implications of complex projects. Mark was previously an Audit/Advisory Partner with one of the Big4 firms where he set up this firm’s Government Finance and Accounting team. During 2012 Mark provided expert advice to Infrastructure UK, part of HM Treasury, on the reform of PFI and wider PPP models.
Speakers, agenda and timings may be subject to change
Travel
Getting here by tube
You can plan your tube journey and buy travel cards online using the Transport for London website.
Westminster Station (0.1 miles)
Lines: Circle, District, Jubilee
Exit the station via Exit 6 through the underground tunnel towards Parliament Square. You will come to street level on Whitehall. Turn left into Parliament Square, cross the road ahead of you then turn right into Broad Sanctuary. The QEII Centre is on your right, directly opposite Westminster Abbey. (This is a step-free station.)
St James Park Station (0.1 miles)
Lines: Circle, District
Take the Broadway exit from the tube station and walk straight down Tothill Street. At the end of this street turn left and you will see the QEII Centre directly in front of you. (This is NOT a step-free station.)
Victoria Station (0.7 miles)
Lines: Circle, District, Victoria
Exit from the front of the station, turn right and walk down Victoria Street. At the end of Victoria Street is Broad Sanctuary, the QEII Centre is on the left, opposite Westminster Abbey. (This is NOT a step-free station.)
Getting here by bicycle
There are many cycle routes across Greater London. To plan the best route for you to get to The QEII Centre visit the Transport for London cycle website.
Getting here by bus
Buses 11,24,53,77a and 88 all stop at Parliament Square. The QEII Centre is just to the west of the square, directly opposite Westminster Abbey. To plan your bus route, use the Transport for London journey planner.
Getting Here By Train
To plan your train journey to London you can use National Rail Enquiries.
There are three mainline rail stations within a mile of the QEII Centre. These are Charing Cross, Victoria and Waterloo. To plan your travel from the other mainline terminals in central London (St Pancras International, King’s Cross, Paddington, Liverpool Street, London Bridge) use the Transport for London journey planner.
Walking from Charing Cross (0.7 miles)
Exit the front of Charing Cross Station and turn left towards Trafalgar Square. Turn left down Whitehall and continue until Parliament Square. Follow Parliament Square around to the right and turn right onto Broad Sanctuary. The QEII Centre is on your right directly opposite Westminster Abbey.
Walking from Victoria (0.7 miles)
Exit the front of Victoria Station, walk across the bus stand area and turn right onto Victoria Street. Continue along Victoria Street until you reach Westminster Abbey. The QEII Centre is on your left, directly opposite the Abbey.
Walking from Waterloo (1 mile)
Exit the station onto York Road. Turn left and walk to the roundabout with County Hall Hotel on your right. Cross York Road and take Westminster Bridge Road on your right. Cross the bridge to Parliament Square and follow Parliament Square around to the right. Turn right onto Broad Sanctuary. The QEII Centre is on your right directly opposite Westminster Abbey.
Getting Here By Air
It will take you 45 minutes to an hour to reach The QEII Centre on public transport from any of London’s airports.
Travelling from Heathrow Airport
Approximate journey time: 1 hour
Take the tube to Green Park on the Piccadilly Line. Change to the Jubilee Line and stop at Westminster.
Alternatively take the Heathrow Express to Paddington, and then take the Circle Line tube to Westminster.
Travelling from Gatwick Airport
Approximate journey time: 45 minutes
Take the Gatwick Express to Victoria Railway Station. The QEII Centre is a 15-minute walk from Victoria via Victoria Street.
Travelling from Stansted Airport
Approximate journey time: 1 hour
Take the Stansted Express to Liverpool Street and then take the Circle Line tube to Westminster tube station.
Travelling from London City Airport
Approximate journey time: 45 minutes
Take the Jubilee Line from the airport to Westminster tube station.
Travelling from Luton Airport
Approximate journey time: 48 minutes
Take one of the special connecting buses from the airport to Luton rail station. Take one of the frequent trains to Kings Cross, and from here take the Circle Line tube to Westminster.
Getting Here By Road
Please be advised that it is quicker and easier to travel to The QEII Centre using public transport and that we are within the congestion charging zone.
Car Parking
The Q-Park Westminster car park is located just a short distance from The QEII Centre in Great College Street, SW1P 3RX. For more information about the car park please visit their website: www.q-park.co.uk.
Thursday 1st February 2018, QEII Centre, London SW1P 3EE
08:30 – 09:30 Registration and refreshments
09:30 – 11:00 Plenary session
11:00 – 11:30 Refreshments and networking
11:30 – 12:10 Choice of work sessions
12:20 – 13:00 Choice of work sessions
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:25 Choice of work sessions
14:35 – 15:15 Choice of work sessions
15:15 – 15:45 Refreshments and networking
15:45 – 16:25 Choice of work sessions
16:30 – 17:00 Panel debate, Q&A and Chair’s closing remarks
17:00 – 18:00 (approx) Drinks reception
Please note times, agenda and speakers are subject to change
Broad Sanctuary Westminster London SW1P 3EE
QEII Centre is the largest dedicated conference and exhibition space in central London. The venue offers world class facilities for high profile conferences, conventions, exhibitions and corporate events with capacity of up to 2,500 – hosting over 400 national and international events a year.
Situated in the shadow of Big Ben and Westminster Abbey, the Centre is served by outstanding transport links providing easy access to everything London has to offer and is within an hour’s transfer from five international airports.
Travel
Getting here by tube
You can plan your tube journey and buy travel cards online using the Transport for London website.
Westminster Station (0.1 miles)
Lines: Circle, District, Jubilee
Exit the station via Exit 6 through the underground tunnel towards Parliament Square. You will come to street level on Whitehall. Turn left into Parliament Square, cross the road ahead of you then turn right into Broad Sanctuary. The QEII Centre is on your right, directly opposite Westminster Abbey. (This is a step-free station.)
St James Park Station (0.1 miles)
Lines: Circle, District
Take the Broadway exit from the tube station and walk straight down Tothill Street. At the end of this street turn left and you will see the QEII Centre directly in front of you. (This is NOT a step-free station.)
Victoria Station (0.7 miles)
Lines: Circle, District, Victoria
Exit from the front of the station, turn right and walk down Victoria Street. At the end of Victoria Street is Broad Sanctuary, the QEII Centre is on the left, opposite Westminster Abbey. (This is NOT a step-free station.)
Getting here by bicycle
There are many cycle routes across Greater London. To plan the best route for you to get to The QEII Centre visit the Transport for London cycle website.
Getting here by bus
Buses 11,24,53,77a and 88 all stop at Parliament Square. The QEII Centre is just to the west of the square, directly opposite Westminster Abbey. To plan your bus route, use the Transport for London journey planner.
Getting Here By Train
To plan your train journey to London you can use National Rail Enquiries.
There are three mainline rail stations within a mile of the QEII Centre. These are Charing Cross, Victoria and Waterloo. To plan your travel from the other mainline terminals in central London (St Pancras International, King’s Cross, Paddington, Liverpool Street, London Bridge) use the Transport for London journey planner.
Walking from Charing Cross (0.7 miles)
Exit the front of Charing Cross Station and turn left towards Trafalgar Square. Turn left down Whitehall and continue until Parliament Square. Follow Parliament Square around to the right and turn right onto Broad Sanctuary. The QEII Centre is on your right directly opposite Westminster Abbey.
Walking from Victoria (0.7 miles)
Exit the front of Victoria Station, walk across the bus stand area and turn right onto Victoria Street. Continue along Victoria Street until you reach Westminster Abbey. The QEII Centre is on your left, directly opposite the Abbey.
Walking from Waterloo (1 mile)
Exit the station onto York Road. Turn left and walk to the roundabout with County Hall Hotel on your right. Cross York Road and take Westminster Bridge Road on your right. Cross the bridge to Parliament Square and follow Parliament Square around to the right. Turn right onto Broad Sanctuary. The QEII Centre is on your right directly opposite Westminster Abbey.
Getting Here By Air
It will take you 45 minutes to an hour to reach The QEII Centre on public transport from any of London’s airports.
Travelling from Heathrow Airport
Approximate journey time: 1 hour
Take the tube to Green Park on the Piccadilly Line. Change to the Jubilee Line and stop at Westminster.
Alternatively take the Heathrow Express to Paddington, and then take the Circle Line tube to Westminster.
Travelling from Gatwick Airport
Approximate journey time: 45 minutes
Take the Gatwick Express to Victoria Railway Station. The QEII Centre is a 15-minute walk from Victoria via Victoria Street.
Travelling from Stansted Airport
Approximate journey time: 1 hour
Take the Stansted Express to Liverpool Street and then take the Circle Line tube to Westminster tube station.
Travelling from London City Airport
Approximate journey time: 45 minutes
Take the Jubilee Line from the airport to Westminster tube station.
Travelling from Luton Airport
Approximate journey time: 48 minutes
Take one of the special connecting buses from the airport to Luton rail station. Take one of the frequent trains to Kings Cross, and from here take the Circle Line tube to Westminster.
Getting Here By Road
Please be advised that it is quicker and easier to travel to The QEII Centre using public transport and that we are within the congestion charging zone.
Car Parking
The Q-Park Westminster car park is located just a short distance from The QEII Centre in Great College Street, SW1P 3RX. For more information about the car park please visit their website: www.q-park.co.uk.
Georgia Richardson
– 0161 482 7853
– grichardson@publicsectorconnect.org
Graham Rosen
– 0161 482 7858
– grosen@publicsectorconnect.org
Steve Mallinson
– 0161 482 7857
– smallinson@publicsectorconnect.org
Charis Rosen
– 0161 482 7855
– crosen@publicsectorconnect.org
Charis Rosen
– 0161 482 7855
– crosen@publicsectorconnect.org
Georgia Richardson
– 0161 482 7853
– grichardson@publicsectorconnect.org
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