​🗺️ 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 third evening of Land Talks are:

​👮 Jailhouse Blocks: Inside Britain’s Prison-Building Saga by Fabian Chessell

​Appointed by the Deputy PM to build thousands of prison cells, Fabian quick hit a cast of unexpected soap opera-style villains: endless rare species surveys, mad playing field consultees and more. Years later, with early releases grabbing headlines, Fabian lays what went wrong how to fix the finale.

​📐 1.5 Million Homes: How Much Space Are We Talking? by Euan Mills

​How much space does one house occupy? Now imagine 300,000 of them – the number we need per year – and suddenly the question of where they’ll fit becomes impossible to ignore. Euan takes us on a visual journey through different housing types, from sprawling suburbs to compact terraces, and asks us to re-imagine the sorts of towns and cities we want to build.

​🏗️ Buildings for All: How WikiHouse Open Sources Construction by Amber Richardson

​WikiHouse is an open-source construction system that lets people download, cut, and assemble modular building components to create affordable, sustainable housing. Amber introduces us to WikiHouse and shares how a decade of collaboration has refined the system into an intuitive, modular toolkit used worldwide today.

​🏛️ The Rule of Flaw: How Good Law Led to Bad Planning by Benedict Springbett

​Judicial Review was designed to keep government power within the bounds of the law – not to stall housing, infrastructure and regeneration. Benedict unpacks how we got here, whether Judicial Review itself really is the problem, and how smarter rules could unlock abundance, without compromising justice.

​🇯🇵 Rebuild & Repeat: How Japan Sees Land Differently by Matthew Bornholt

​In Japan, most homes are self-built, treated like consumer goods and development is permissive. The result: affordable house prices, but with ugly skylines and a constant need to fund re-building. Matthew gives a rapid tour of Japan’s land system and asks what Britain might learn from the land of the rising sun.

​⛰️ Land Justice: Lessons from the Scottish Highlands by Bonnie VandeSteeg

​Scotland’s beautiful landscapes mask fierce battles – from anglers vs paddlers to local interests vs distant conservationists. Bonnie explores these tensions, how they led her to the People’s Land Policy and how the reforms would give communities greater control over their land.

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