Date: Available from Tuesday 21st May 2024 on demand
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This online webinar delivers 45 minutes of CPD and is FREE TO MEMBERS.
A ‘coffee shot’ style webinar that will bring you up to date on the current key issues.
Government regulations and increasing pressure from investors and customers is pushing the real estate sector to improve the environmental impact of its developments and their on-going sustainability. This affects landlords and developers, but is also now impacting tenants through leases and their fit-out works.
Leisure has a huge amount of 20-25 year old properties that will need to be refurbished and brought up-to-date. Increasingly demolition is becoming harder with the carbon costs and increased construction costs. The sector is also refurbishing and repurposing 1970/1980s department stores and other space within the retail sector as well.
The session will focus on dealing with bringing real estate back into sustainable use and hitting EPC targets. Leisure has millions of square feet of 1990s stock with E, F and G ratings. The session will run through the latest key changes and pressure points in this field and look at practical solutions to help landlords and tenants deal with the resulting challenges.
The Leisure Property Forum has assembled a panel of experienced industry experts in this field.
Our panellists:
Chair: Ashley Blake – CEO at Otium Real Estate and Chair of The LPF
Ashley is a real estate investment and development, asset management and fund management specialist
Ashley co-founded Otium Real Estate in 2014. It focuses on investing in and managing commercial leisure properties such as leisure parks, cinemas, gyms, hotels and restaurants. Otium owns and manages assets across the country. Otium partners with US and Middle Eastern investors, major house builders and leisure owner-occupiers.
He is the current Chair of the Leisure Property Forum, the UK’s leading forum for investors, developers, operators and advisors in the leisure real estate sector.
Martin Dartmouth – Project Director & ESG Lead at Gleeds Advisory Ltd
Martin is the ESG lead at Gleeds, skilled in asset evaluation and strategy, and provides strategic advice on Environmental Social Governance (ESG) matters. He was previously at Arcadis where he advised REITs, AMs, and Funds on ESG strategies from pre-acquisition, through hold, to divestment.
Ben Stansfield – Sustainability Lawyer at Gowling WLG
Ben provides clear and user-friendly solutions to organisations in need of his environmental and planning law expertise, with experience from his broad environmental law practice, including the management of environmental liabilities and risks; site remediation; the environmental aspects of M&A transactions; environmental permit appeals; EU product regulation and stewardship issues; waste and emissions; and the consenting, permitting and regulatory aspects of large infrastructure developments, with a particular emphasis on renewable and low carbon projects. Ben is a Trustee of the UK Environmental Law Association.
He also guides developers, funders, contractors, purchasers, and occupiers through the myriad of planning law and regulation, including compulsory purchase, negotiating statutory planning and infrastructure agreements, conducting appeals and judicial review.
Schedule:
Online registration
Intro and Speaker presentations
Panel discussion
The event will be available as a recording for members on demand.
*Please note – our panellists confirm their availability in advance. If any of our panellists cancel due to unforeseen circumstances, we will use our best efforts to replace them, but cannot guarantee that all advertised panellists will always be in attendance.