​​ ​🗺️ 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 sixth evening of Land Talks are:

​☁️ Start-Up Nation: Inside The Movement Buying Sovereignty, One Parcel of Land at a Time by Isabelle Castro

​A crypto-funded movement is buying up parcels of land around the world, stitching them together online and calling the result a sovereign nation. Isabelle introduces the network state and tells her inside story of its privately run city on an artificial Malaysian island. Is it a genuine reimagining of land? Enclosure dressed up as progress? Or the inevitable result of declining trust and cultural stagnation?

​🚦 Go/Stop: The Planning Policy That Doubled Homebuilding – Then Was Scrapped by Maurice Lange

​Britain's planning system decides case by case – every application a fresh argument, every neighbour a potential veto. For three years, Croydon broke ranks, auto-approving if you followed the rules. Homebuilding doubled. A new local mayor scrapped the policy immediately. Maurice runs the numbers on how many homes could be built, if the policy were revived at a scale no local politician could stop.

​🚇 The Battersea Job: How London Pulled Off Its First Tube Extension in 22 Years by Bill Chen

​£1.1 billion. Under budget. No central government money. The Northern Line Extension to Battersea was funded by a trick nobody in England had tried before: tax increment financing. Borrow a billion, then pay it back with the growth the extension itself creates. Bill reveals the deal and asks what it teaches us about getting big things built in Britain.

​➕ Three Further Speakers & Talks to be Announced Soon

​📋 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 sixth Land Talks to make Britain’s land system work harder for everyone’s benefit. In the meantime, find out more at landtalks.org.