The Wilson Organisation - General - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Date: 02 Jun 2008
An audience of more than 50 guests joined professional firms The Wilson Organisation (Wilsons), Tenon and The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) at the second annual Building for 2015 Property Discussion.
Held at Nottingham Racecourse, the open forum was designed to bring together a wide range of businesses with an interest in future regeneration issues facing the East Midlands. Subjects included challenges within the current financial climate and the key areas of regeneration affecting the region.
Chairing the event, Mich Stevenson, chairman of Spenbeck, also took time to highlight the sector's role of taking a longer-term view by working together as a region. "There is plenty of land available, but we must get the current surplus properties off the market to enable us to move forward. Do not construct Lego - let us build to an even higher standard for our next generation."
In his presentation, Peter Connolly, development director at Blueprint, demonstrated his opinion on the next stages of development for the region, with special attention given to the opportunities in St. George's cultural quarter and Waterside in Leicester, Nottingham's Science Park and extended Eastside, and Derby's Cathedral Quarter and Castleward.
In particular, Peter highlighted the big shift towards developments for both education and healthcare, and the ability of these to be a catalyst for other property and construction sectors in building both green and sustainable projects for the future.
Pete Cochrane, a senior economic advisor at RBS, offered his views on the past and present UK financial climate, and what the future holds in the medium term. He drew attention to current global and UK economic trends acknowledging the headwinds facing the building sector at the moment, but also noting some more positive indicators, such as a tight labour market, and consumer resilience.
The event finished with the speaker panel and team of accounting, funding and insurance advisors answering questions taken from the floor.
Charlotte Prow, joint managing director of Wilsons concluded: "The event was an ideal way of finding out what the industry is thinking on the burning issues facing the property and construction sector in the East Midlands. All co-sponsors are especially looking forward to re-addressing the region's commercial and residential changes in next year's discussion."
BACK ROW L-R: Mark Pashley, director of tax at Tenon, Peter Connolly, development director at Blueprint, Anthony Read, property director at RBS, Peter Cochrane, senior economic advisor at RBS. FRONT ROW L-R: Annabel and Charlotte Prow, joint managing directors of Wilsons, Roy Costa, director of Wilsons, Mich Stevenson, chief executive of Spenbeck, Neil Gray, director of corporate finance at Tenon, Jon Wall, associate director at RBS.
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