thinkingplace are racing towards Place Pizzazz 2025
We are holding our fourth inspirational and thought provoking event on Wednesday 12th November 2025, 9:30am – 4pm at Chester Racecourse. With another great line up of speakers and interactive sessions this is the best practice event to be at for anyone involved in promoting and developing their place and it’s TOTALLY FREE!
The content and leading edge speakers and practitioners are to be announced shortly, and here’s a taster:
Panels
Is keeping us safe a much-needed dividend for many places?
The Strategic Defence Review and other Government initiatives has put resilience and future proofing the UK at the top of the agenda, creating major investment in places. What challenges and opportunities is this creating?
Is there a risk of the much hyped New Towns suffering from a false start?
The Labour Government wants to address the housing crisis with an ambition to have numerous sites built by 2029. Where are things up to, what have we learnt from previous experiences and what will be important for this initiative to be successful?
Can you hear the roar of your crowd? … places doing things differently
Lots of places talk a good story about how they’re promoting themselves but few deliver. Hear from some places who are really making waves and getting their voice heard.
Breakouts
There are some inspiring sessions on place stuff that matters to you including:
- Lights, camera, action! … Film Offices, place fad or feature?
- Seeing your place through different eyes: the importance of visual storytelling
- Future Generations: why we must be good ancestors?
- The Great North: will it be a game changer
Kindly sponsored by: Marketing Cheshire, Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaC), Chester BID and Groundwork.
You also get to enjoy the amazing and beautiful city of Chester!
Read more about last year’s event and watch the highlight video here.
Alongside, hearing from some of the delegates that attended in 2024 here.
If you’d like to attend, please send an email to nicola.dobson@thinkingplace.co.uk to reserve a place.
We hope you can join us!
