Events

6pm, 26th January 2010 - 6pm, 27th January 2010

FILLING THE VOID - BPF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY DINNER AND CONFERENCE
Various locations, central London
We held our most successful residential dinner to date at the IOD on 26 January 2010. Over 200 guests attended the dinner, with another 200 delegates in attendance at the conference at One Bishops Square the next day. Presentations and speeches from the conference...

8:00am - 10:30am, 9th December 2009

BPF & PINS Planning Seminar
Bircham Dyson Bell, 50 Broadway, London, SW1H 0BL
We held an interesting and lively seminar with the Planning Inspectorate this week. The topics discussed were the new appeals system which has recently been introduced, plan-making and the role of the property industry in LDFs and lastly we finished...

8am - 10am, 26th November 2009

Lifting the fog: public procurement and development agreements
Cushman & Wakefield, 43-45 Portman Square, London W1A 3BG
Over 70 people attended the seminar which examined the recently released Office of Government Commerce guidance on the application of public procurement rules to development agreements. Many thanks to the sponsors Cushman & Wakefield and Eversheds LLP.

8:30am - 12:30pm, 17th November 2009

DRIVING CHANGE IN EXISTING BUILDINGS - BPF SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE
Taylor Wessing LLP, 5 New Street Square, London
Lord McKenzie (CLG) will be the opening speaker at our autumn conference on sustainability. The half day conference will seek to determine both the state of the art and possible future trajectories on the issues surrounding greening non-domestic building stock,...

8:00am - 12:15pm, 22nd September 2009

Community infrastructure levy (CIL) seminar
Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, One Fleet Place, London EC4M 7WS
This week at the BPF, over a 100 people attended a successful seminar at Denton Wilde Sapte to discuss the detail for the proposed CIL regulations. The BPF will continue to discuss the issue with Government in the hope of coming...

12pm - 8pm, 16th June 2009

TURNING POINTS - BPF ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2009
QEII Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, SW1P 3EE
Over 250 guests and delegates attended Turning Points, the BPF Annual Conference 2009, at the QEIICC on 16 June. Many thanks to our sponsors Aviva, BPN Paribas Real Estate, Eurohypo AG, Frogmore Property Company, Planning and Regeneration and Renewal, for their support at...

6pm, 26th January 2009 - 5pm, 27th January 2009

Housing - Who Pays? BPF Residential Conference 2009
Various locations, central London
Almost 300 guests attended our annual residential dinner and conference this week, making it our most successful residential event yet. Grant Shapps MP and David Pretty CBE addressed just over 180 guests at the dinner on the palatial surroundings of the Royal...

7:30pm - 9:30pm, 17th November 2008

BOW GROUP AND FABIAN SOCIETY DEBATE
Portcullis House, Westminster
At Portcullis House on Monday night the BPF sponsored a fascinating debate: ‘Is Britain Broken’, featuring as guest speakers John Redwood MP and Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government John Redwood commenced by accusing the Labour...

12am - 12am, 22nd October 2008

BPF Grand Annual Dinner
Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London
Over 600 guests joined us at the Royal Courts of Justice for our inaugural grand annual dinner on Wednesday night. Our after dinner speaker, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, delivered a wide-ranging, humorous speech which variously touched upon the rule of law,...

12pm - 7pm, 10th June 2008

Property Futures - BPF Annual Conference
The QEII Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE
We received tremendous support from members for this year’s well attended conference, with delegates enjoying a lively lunchtime speech from Alastair Campbell, and an afternoon of thought-provoking debate from a programme of esteemed speakers. Minister for Housing and Planning...