​ ​🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck

​​Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing in decades to unlock our most limited resource. Is it any wonder houses are unaffordable, productivity has stalled and social mobility has flatlined?

​​Co-founded by Francis Irving, co-creator of TheyWorkForYou, and Henry Morris, founder of the social mobility charity upReach, Land Talks is a series of evenings to inspire and connect high-agency people to reimagine land for everyone’s benefit.

​​⚡Lightning Talks, Lasting Ideas

​​​​Each evening features six sharp, informative and inspirational lightning talks. The six brilliant speakers and their provocative talks booked for the fourth evening of Land Talks are:

​☕ Licence to Chill: Smuggling a Sober Nightclub Through a Booze-Centred Rulebook by Eric Wycoff Rogers

​When Eric arrived in London, the city told him to “drink or go home”. Instead, he chose to build a cosy, sober, nightclub. Then the land bouncers appeared: rent and a booze-centred rulebook. Eric tells his story, lifting the lid on the scrappy business model hacks that make the Night Cafe viable – a rare win against the land system’s gravity.

​🐇 Vanishing Windfalls: Singapore’s Land Trick by Andrew Purves

​Singapore is often cited as proof you can stop land wealth hardening into permanent inequality – usually with a knowing nod to Henry George’s “single tax”. Plot twist: myth. Singapore’s real magic is a British colonial leasehold system, upgraded over decades to keep land windfalls on a leash. Andrew reveals the trick – and why the results stick.

​🏚️ Lost in Possession: Inside Britain’s Eviction Maze by Sinead Doyle

​An eviction is less of a verdict and more a relay race of notices, evidence, hearings, adjournments and missed deadlines. Sinead maps the relay with real stories from landlords, tenants, judges and councils, revealing how mundane bottlenecks create extraordinary harm. The good news: many are fixable; repair the process, and you unlock certainty, dignity and fairness.

​🇬🇷 Stacked Ambitions: How Greece Housed a Nation Without Public Housing by Maria Brewster

​When Greece needed to house millions, it didn’t build council homes – it offered asset-rich, but cash-poor landowners a unique land-for-flats deal. This alchemy sent ownership soaring and reined in sprawl – but at the cost of patchy construction, scant greenery and a concrete legacy. Maria weighs the trade-offs and asks what, if anything, Britain should copy.

​🌳 A Forest With Streets: Can Britain Build Its First New City for 50 Years? by Shiv Malik

​Forest City pitches something Britain hasn’t done for 50 years: build a brand-new city. East of Cambridge, it would house nearly a million residents, with a 12,000-acre forest as its green heart. People would buy homes, but the land wouldn’t be up for speculation, baking in permanent affordability. Shiv unpacks the plan, the setbacks so far, and the many hurdles ahead.

​🧟‍♂️ Bloodsucker Bands: The Undead Property Tax Freezing Britain in Time by Andrew Dixon

​Council Tax is the undead love-child of the poll tax and domestic rates system: patched up, never revalued, and regressively feeding on households every year. Financier and campaigner, Andrew, drags this fiscal ghoul into the daylight, explains why every government has dodged putting it out of its misery, and lays out a silver bullet that could finally put fairness back into property taxation.

​​📋 How the Evening Will Run

• ​​​Arrive from 6.00 p.m.

• ​​​Three talks plus questions: 6.30 p.m.

• ​​​Finger food: 7.00 p.m.

• ​​​Three talks plus questions: 7.45 p.m.

• ​​​Chat with your fellow groundbreakers as long as you like!

​​​👯 Join the Groundbreakers

​​​Whether you’re an analyst, policy wonk, programmer, policymaker, activist, or simply passionate about a brighter, more abundant future, join us at the fourth Land Talks to make Britain’s land system work harder for everyone’s benefit. In the meantime, find out more at landtalks.org.