Kent Housing Group

✅ That’s a wrap on the #KHGConference2025! Thanks to @birkettsllp, speakers, supporting partners, & delegates for a powerful day shaping housing in Kent & Medway. From delivery & data to health & strategy, big ideas & next steps were shared.

🎤 To close the #KHGConference2025, we’re joined by @EstuaryEnvoy to share reflections on the current policy, governance, and financial frameworks that support the fair and effective delivery of high-quality homes.

🏘️With changes to the NPPF on the horizon, our final panel session will unpack how to maintain high standards for the delivery of new homes in the South East. We'll hear from Matthew Woodhead - DHA Planning, Mark Quinn - @quinn_estates, & Tom Newcombe - @birkettsllp.

Chaired by Nicola Tilbury of Potter Raper, Kieran Cooper - ThanetDC, Mitzi Wells - Potter Raper, and Matt Sutton - @WatesGroup, will provide practical advice on how understanding your stock at a granular level helps drive safer and healthier homes.

🔍 Next up: Maximising Your Knowledge of Your Buildings: The Power of Stock Condition Surveys, sponsored by @PotterRaper.

We're pausing for lunch after a packed morning of insights on delivering better homes across the region. Big thanks to London Fire Solutions for sponsoring today’s lunch! Their work protecting lives through passive fire safety is vital to the housing sector.

We’re at the Clive Emson Conference Centre today for the launch of the new Kent &Medway Housing Strategy for 2025-30. Great to be part of the conversations shaping how this strategy will be implemented. @KentHsgGroup #KHGConference2025 kenthousinggroup.org.uk/protocols/kent…

🏡 During the Safer and Efficient Homes workshop, our panellists - Helen Miller of KHG, Ellis Arnett of TEAM Safety Services, and Richard Hopkins of Thanet District Council - explore how the updated HHSRS and Decent Homes standards ensure better living conditions for all.

🏥 Facilitated by Nikki Teesdale, our next workshop explores how high-quality housing plays a vital role in improving physical & mental health and how we can raise standards across all tenures. With Mark Bawden - AshfordBC, Paul Clarke - @Kent_cc, and Dr Michael Alexander - @ucl.

🔍 Workshop 3: The Renters’ Rights Bill Jonathan Hulley - @BirkettsLLP, joins us to discuss the potential implications of significant changes to the Renters' Rights Bill, including abolishing 'no-fault' evictions and removing fixed-term tenancies.

🏘️ Workshop 2: Tackling the Challenges of Affordability, Wellbeing & Choice, facilitated by @EnglishRuralCEO. With affordability pressures across Kent & Medway, Dr Michael Alexander - @UCL and Amy Cheswick explore how to meet growing housing needs and create lasting solutions.

Speakers include: Nick Fenton - Kent Housing & Development Group, Liz Gibney - @LEPPlanning, and David Godfrey - Thames Estuary Growth Board / @Kent_CC.

🔧 Workshop 1: Infrastructure First & Accelerating Housing Delivery is now underway. Our panel explores how strategic infrastructure investment can unlock housing growth across Kent & Medway - and ensure communities aren’t built in isolation.

11:30AM–12:20PM 🛠️ Workshop 1: Infrastructure First & Accelerating Delivery 🏘️ Workshop 2: Tackling Affordability, Wellbeing & Choice 📜 Workshop 3: The Renters’ Rights Bill 12:30PM–1:20PM 🏠 Workshop 1: Safer and Efficient Homes 💚 Workshop 2: Housing, Health and Wellbeing

☕ Time for a break! Don’t forget to visit our brilliant exhibitors while you recharge. After the break, we’ll head into the workshop sessions. Here’s what’s coming up:

🏘️ Delivering Better Homes Growth, Wellbeing and Choice: Exploring how the refreshed Kent & Medway Housing Strategy 2025–30 will shape delivery across the region. Featuring Brian Horton - KHG, Kerry Parr - @AECOM, Cllr Vince Maple - @Medway_Council, and Tracey Kerly - AshfordBC.

🎤 BBC’s Mark Easton opens the #KHGConference2025, welcoming delegates and setting the scene for a day of collaboration, strategy & housing innovation across Kent and Medway.

The #KHGConference25 is underway – bringing together housing leaders to shape Kent and Medway’s future #housing strategy. Themes: 🏗️ Infrastructure 🏠 Affordability 💷 Wellbeing 🔐 Safer Homes Follow along all day & join the conversation. Programme: indd.adobe.com/view/98b90bca-…

The #KHGConference2025, in association with Birketts, kicks off tomorrow, and you won't want to miss it! Join us for impactful panels & keynotes, interactive workshops, insights from industry leaders and high-impact networking opportunities. Learn more: wlevents.org.uk/event/kent-hou…

📣 This is your final call to secure your place at the #KHGConference2025, in association with Birketts. With housing at a turning point in Kent & Medway, this is where the real conversations are happening. Final tickets: wlevents.org.uk/event/kent-hou…