People’s Plans: experiences of community-led planning

Join us for a panel discussion exploring the impact of community-led planning.

How can communities shape the future of their own neighbourhoods? What happens when local people take the lead in imagining change, turning ideas into action?

Join us for a panel discussion exploring the impact of community-led planning. Bringing together community organisers, practitioners, and scholars, this event will spotlight community groups developing their own plans for improving their neighbourhoods, and finding pathways to delivering these plans.

Meet the speakers:

• Rowan Mackay, Community Led Homes
• Boglarka Filler, PEACH (People’s Alliance for Custom House) and and E16 Community Land Trust
• Keith Benton and Toby Laurent Belson, Trellick Tower TRA and Trellick Foundation
• Maria Jose Gonzales Zevallos, Wards Corner CBS
• Agustina Martire, Queens University Belfast
• Azadeh Sobout, Participation and Practice of Right & Queens University Belfast
• Chaired by Pablo Sendra and Myfanwy Taylor, UCL Bartlett School of Planning

UCL200 at the Bartlett

2026 is the year in which we celebrate UCL’s bicentenary, marking 200 years since UCL’s establishment as the first university in London.

On 11 February 2026, UCL began a year of celebration to mark our bicentenary. UCL200 will be an exciting and varied programme of activities, events and storytelling, celebrating and reinforcing UCL’s commitment to our founding values, highlighting the excellence and impact of our groundbreaking work and people, and presenting an ambitious and inspiring portrait of our future.