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After over 20 years’ experience in various Large and small housebuilders, Dylan has now been Land and Planning Director for Boklok for 12 months. BoKlok is a collaboration between IKEA and Skanska where we have built in excess of 13,000 low cost sustainable quality homes in the Nordics for over 20 years. Boklok was introduced in the Uk in 2019, and our first project will be at Airport Road, Bristol starting within the next 4-6 weeks.

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For over fifteen years Melissa has worked across urbanism, the arts, and public participation. She is Director of We Can Make at Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol. We Can Make is a CIC that designs and delivers innovative approaches to citizen-led housing, including unlocking micro-sites for affordable homes and using digital design and fabrication technologies to empower communities. Melissa is also a Commissioner on the No Place Left Behind Commission and Co-Convenor of Redcliffe Residents Action Group & Neighbourhood Forum.

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Zoe is a specialist in city resilience and brings a deep and broad understanding of the built environment. Zoe is an innovator, passionate about design excellence and the generation of inclusive growth and sustainable cohesive communities. Drawing on 25 years in Architecture, Engineering and consultancy most recently with Ove Arup in the South West Region. Chair of South West Advisory Board for the National Trust, Business member of the West of England Combined Authority LEP Board.

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Jacqueline is a procurement professional who has led on the development of Bristol City Council's approach to creating Social Value. She has collaborated with stakeholders to understand the barriers and challenges to the increased use of MMC in the City, a sustainable solution that has the potential to become one of the key enablers to the local authority and its partners to achieve the scale and pace of the development of new homes needed to tackle the housing crisis.

I am passionate about the fundamental right to access a decent home at a cost relative to a person's income as well as building communities not just houses. My career in affordable housing began as a tenant and community activist in my 20s (some, ahem....30 years ago) working to improve housing conditions and community facilities for council tenants and the wider neighbourhood. My housing experience has been based mainly around new homes development, regeneration and community led housing. I have worked for both local authorities and housing associations at executive and non-executive levels. I am currently Chair of Westworks Procurement and working as an independent consultant on a number of community and housing projects.

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Mike was born and brought up in Southmead, Bristol, and has spent most of his life in and around the area. He’s always been “Community” minded and has helped over the years in various organisations in Southmead, Church, Youth Club, Scouts etc. Around 8 years ago, the Southmead Development Trust, came up with an idea for a Community Plan. This involved a group of mainly ladies door knocking every house, which resulted in the Southmead Plan,; later becoming the basis of the Arnside and Glencoyne Square Regeneration Group which Mike Chairs. They understand this to be the largest Community Lead Housing project in the Country and believe it demonstrates that Communities can lead on housing development in the future.

Steve has driven a comprehensive transformation of Net Zero Buildings to enable it to embrace an unprecedented period of growth, doubling revenues year on year. Building on the foundation of simple, cost effective, net zero carbon buildings, he was instrumental in developing the design GenSet© which secured a place on the DfE’s MMC1 £3bn offsite schools construction framework. In parallel with the remarkable growth in Education, Steve is also capturing similarly exciting prospects in Residential and Primary Health.

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