London's Future: A Reset for Living
Making London’s Regeneration and Public-Private Partnerships Work
London's housing shortage is well documented. Delivery numbers are falling and the forward pipeline is contracting, as explored throughout our London Living series: ‘A Reset for Living’. What is missing is the coordinated action needed to turn viable sites into built homes. Regeneration schemes, properly structured and properly funded, are part of the answer. But they will only deliver at scale if the public and private sectors stop treating partnership as a last resort and start treating it as the primary model.
London’s Regeneration: How do we deliver impactful projects?
The barriers to delivery are well understood. The solutions are increasingly well understood too. What is needed now is the willingness to act on them, from both sides of the partnership table.
Public sector landowners need to come to market with clear, investable propositions: sites with planning momentum, realistic viability assumptions and the commercial capacity to engage with private partners throughout delivery, not just at procurement. Private sector partners need to bring patient capital, long-term commitment and a genuine understanding of place-making outcomes alongside financial returns.
CBRE works at this junction every day, advising public bodies and private investors across London's most complex regeneration programmes. The insight from that work is consistent: the schemes that succeed treat partnership as a delivery mechanism, not a financing workaround. Get the structure right, align the incentives, resource the governance, and London's pipeline moves. The capital is there. The demand is there. What comes next is a matter of will.
We are delighted to be able to share the experiences in delivering successful partnerships from our clients LB Barnet which is delivering the Brent Cross Town development and from the Greater London Authority who deliver regeneration in schemes across London.
Our speakers:
Brent Cross Regeneration,
Barnet Council
Joint Ventures and Equity,
Greater London Authority
London & South East,
CBRE
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How regeneration projects can support housing delivery
London's regeneration programmes have a strong track record. Over the past decade, they have delivered the homes, public spaces and the accommodation for businesses that communities across the capital genuinely need.
Large-scale regeneration is inherently complex. It requires land assembly, planning consent, infrastructure investment, viability work and long-term funding commitments, often simultaneously, across multiple parties with different mandates and timescales. No single party can move these schemes forward alone. Public landowners hold sites that the market cannot activate without grant support or infrastructure funding. Private investors hold capital that cannot deploy without planning certainty and de-risked entry points. The gap between the two is where schemes stall.
Closing that gap is a question of structure. The programmes that deliver are the ones where public and private contributions are sequenced deliberately: public funding absorbs early-stage risk, private capital scales delivery once viability is established, and governance is resourced for the full lifecycle, not just the procurement phase. That model works particularly in challenging markets.
Explore the Series
- London's Future: A Reset for Living
The New Shape of Money: Who is really investing in London Living, and why
London Living is entering a new normal, shaped by new investors, longer-term horizons and evolving deal structures.
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Unlocking London’s Housing: Planning, partnership, and pace
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London Living Demand: Beyond the headline numbers
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