Jon Sandford

Lead on infrastructure and transportation planning in the planning enabling development and design team for Homes England

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@23gleave Or for pedestrians on Special K ...

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Transport for the North Inaugural Conference today in Sheffield. Andy Burnham and others outlining investment plans in transport both sides of the Pennines ... continuing the conversation to relate this to key housing growth sites. #infrastructure #homesengland #Transportation

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Very positive meeting with East Northants Council and local colleagues yesterday with a view to undertaking a Smart Place solutions review of the Tresham Garden Village masterplan - a review of new tech infrastructure for the houses and the on-site built environment.

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Thanks today to WSP and Broadway Malyan for giving us an interesting webinar presentation on their newly developed Transit Orientated Communities analytical spreadsheet model, that helps to assess added value to be gained through optimised housing density at transport hubs.

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Chaired a thought provoking "Learning Lync" webinar for Homes England over lunchtime today, kindly presented by WSP on the theme of making sites "Future Ready" - linking to the issues of resilience, future proofing, site adaptability, smart places - towards improved site value.

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L&G presented interesting information at the a Manchester University Housing Symposium similarly, this week ....

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Chaired an interesting Housing Symposium at Manchester University this week - with themes around affordable housing delivery, place making and off-site modular housing construction coming through in the conversations. The latter offering real market disruption opportunity....

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Presenting today at the Smart Cities and Communities - Solving Urban Challenges Conference in Manchester - considering the potential for smart infrastructure to enhance housing growth site competitiveness, saleability and delivery.

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Meeting with Transport for the North today in Sheffield - making connections between housing growth and strategic transport corridor investments

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Attended a useful workshop on development and city resilience today with the GMCA. Attendees from Milan, Paris and Brazil gave international perspectives. Delivering site resilience is now in the revised NPPF and so should be in site design and planning etc.

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A human can lay 300 to 500 bricks a day, SAM can lay 800 to 1,200

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Course on leadership of collaboration using the new ISO44001 Standard last week - great potential for structuring and managing collaboration on different levels - on projects, joint ventures, partnering and more ...

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Attending the MHCLG Design Quality Conference today - demonstrating Governmental intent to give emphasis and application to design quality in policy, the built environment and in housing and growth delivery.

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https://t.co/ago9v9JyX0 via @TransportXtra. Interesting Transforming Cities event today. See link.

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@peteswiftysan @PlanitIE @davidpilling 👍🏻

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Katerra - An american company with some interesting and progressive ideas on off site home manufacturing - with their building engineering team being led by an expat and ex Arup colleague Steve Burrows CBE.

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Throwing down the gauntlet to UK companies ...?

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I attended the bi-monthly GM Infrastructure Advisory Group meeting last week - the interesting issue of city resilience was discussed. Arup have done some formative work on defining an index and framework for analysis for resilence across cities. See https://t.co/uyUxCwg0W1

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MHCLG Planners event in London today. Covering issues in large projects, infrastructure and placemaking design quality.

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@ArmyMediaNW

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Attending the Protech Digital Opportunities2018 event in Manchester this morning - some challenging thinking on digital implications for property and development.