Seminars
The following links are to past HTVF seminars and workshops, and the speakers’ presentations will be available to download in due course. If you are interested in a particular event before it is available here, please contact us.
Upcoming Seminars
Community-led developments in Somerset: Oct 2024 walk & talk
5th October 2024
Community-led developments in Somerset: October 2024 - date to be confirmed. Details to follow soon. (Top image: Somerset landscape.…
Community-led developments in North Yorkshire: Hudswell visit
21st September 2024
Saturday 21 September 2024 Hudswell, North Yorkshire 11am-3pm This visit is designed to find out more about developments in the…
HTVF at Oxford Open Doors
14th September 2024
Saturday 14 September 2024, 11am-3.30pm. The Hub, Kellogg College, Oxford. A joint Historic Towns & Villages Forum (HTVF) and Kellogg…
Community-led developments in Norfolk: Stoke Ferry visit
3rd August 2024
Saturday 3 August 2024 Stoke Ferry, Norfolk 11am-3.30pm This visit is designed to find out more about the village of…
Past Seminars
Vibrant Villages and Towns: Managing Heritage Assets and Development in Smaller Settlements
15th March 2024
This in-person day at Kellogg College, Oxford, is for all those who are responsible for, or interested in, balancing conservation…
Winter-Spring 2023 Programme
17th January 2023
The HTVF's programme of events kicks off in January 2023, looking at topical issues around heritage, climate change, high streets,…
Character, Quality & Design in Neighbourhood Planning and Beyond
27th February 2020
This seminar began by looking at the context for community involvement for design policies, and how to bring design into…
Finding New Life for our Heritage Assets
11th February 2020
This seminar-workshop looked how heritage assets can be re-used as part of their future preservation. Delegates heard from a variety…
Writing Supplementary Planning Documents & Strategies for the Historic Environment
12th November 2019
This seminar-workshop looked at best practice for writing policies for the future of heritage assets, their settings and enhancement. Delegates…
Protecting our Heritage Assets: Community involvement in recording and regenerating local heritage
19th March 2019
As the number of conservation officers in local authorities continues to decline, this seminar looked at the ways in which…
Neighbourhood Planning Review: What it’s achieving and how
26th February 2019
This full day seminar looked at neighbourhood planning in both urban and rural locations, the ways in which local ideas…
Supporting Historic High Streets: Part 3, The Visitor Economy
22nd January 2019
This seminar looked at the role of the visitor economy as a key part of the future historic High Street’s…
Managing Contemporary and Historic Design and Development – Cambridge
20th November 2018
Hosted by Cambridge City Council, this two-part seminar and walking tour discussed the challenges associated with managing change in the…
Under Pressure: Working with the form and setting of smaller settlements
6th November 2018
This seminar-workshop explored how smaller settlements have evolved and the development pressure now being felt as the ‘call for sites’…
Understanding Local Distinctiveness: the challenge for new housing in town and country
12th September 2018
This seminar-workshop discussed why local distinctiveness actually matters, how to identify it, and enshrine it in planning processes. The toolkits…
Supporting Historic High Streets Part 2
20th March 2018
Making places for people, rather than traffic, and ensuring that all town centre visitors have good experiences are the key…
Supporting Historic High Streets Part 1
30th January 2018
Contrary to popular belief, the High Street is not actually dead, but it is timely to consider the challenges and…
Managing Contemporary and Historic Design and Development
13th September 2017
This two-part walking tour and seminar visited developments built over the last 10 years in their historic urban context, and…