Cafe Sci: Sustainable Development

Amidst widespread and growing concern over how to balance the benefits of being a university town with the additional pressure on housing that this brings, we have invited Mike Jenks, emeritus Professor of Architecture, to give a talk on his work internationally on sustainable urban development, and lead a discussion on how a positive vision of planned development can work.

Mike is Chairman of Falmouth Civic Society, and is leading the Spatial Strategy and Housing working group of the Falmouth Neighbourhood Plan; also the President of the Polytechnic itself.

The reason for the rushed timing is that the consultations on the Falmouth Neighbourhood Plan - which is the sole democratic structure in UK planning law that gives residents a say, in the face of developer pressures - needs to be finalised in September. This talk will therefore treat our town as a case study of how, in the light of resaerch on the subject, positive development should be done.