5 August 2026, 17:30 – 21:00
Time: from 5.30pm, with a 6pm start
Venue: Lichfields, The Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, London, EC3R 7AG
Cost: Free to attend. Students welcome
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We are pleased to announce our next NIPA Early Years Practitioner (EYP) collaboration event, in partnership with the Institute of Economic Development's Early Careers Network (ECN).
The evening focuses on the community impacts of nationally significant infrastructure and major regeneration projects, and what the two sectors can learn from each other. It is a topic that sits at the heart of both our memberships.
Those of us working in infrastructure planning and economic development see the public benefit of the projects we advise on. But the communities in the path of those projects often experience something different, and sometimes something harder. This session is an opportunity to look at that honestly.
We will open with a short overview of what the session will explore, including what the process of land assembly and regeneration means for the people affected, including its impacts on economic outcomes, wellbeing and health. A panel of early careers practitioners from across the NIPA EYP and IED ECN memberships will then discuss their direct experience of community impact and community benefit in practice, drawing on examples from infrastructure, economic development and local government.
We will ask where things have gone well, and what each sector can take from the other. Infrastructure projects have shown what is possible when skills, employment and community investment are built in from the outset. Regeneration and local authority practice offers its own lessons, including the growing application of Community Wealth Building principles. The session will explore both sides of that exchange.
The evening will close with drinks and food.