Urgent Conference

URGENT, the Urban Regeneration and Greenfield Environmental Network, held a conference in Oxford on the 10th of July. Delegates with many different agendas came together to share ideas about the housing of the future and talk about what is going wrong now. There was discussion on how to make links between the homeless and those with alternative living visions, how to get round the prejudices of the planning system, and other topics. One of the organisers said 'the whole event paved the way for greater networking to achieve the homes that communities, not construction companies, need'.

The action which was planned for the 12th, to follow the conference, was called off. However, the URGENT networking meeting, held at the conference 'decided to go for it in terms of mass mobilisations'. National protests will be put on in solidarity with local campaigns.

Contact: info@urgent.org.uk or 01865 794 800.