Placemaking, Infrastructure and Building Places People Want to Live

Housing delivery doesn’t start with numbers. It starts with place. In this episode of 1.5M New Homes: The Local Government Challenge, Toby Fox speaks to Alan Evans, Interim Director of Place and Growth at the Royal Borough of Greenwich, about why placemaking, infrastructure and long-term thinking are essential to delivering homes at scale. The conversation covers:

1. Royal Arsenal as a long-term placemaking case study
2. Why infrastructure must lead housing, not follow it
3. The catalytic impact of the Elizabeth line
4. Creating value beyond development appraisals
5. What makes people want to live somewhere
6. How lessons from established places shape plans for Charlton Riverside and Thamesmead
7. This episode focuses on place for a reason.

👉 New houses don’t provide new homes unless places work — we need to be building the 1.5 million new homes England needs. Sponsored by Red Loft and Lovell Partnerships.