​🗺️ 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, backed by data, or code. The six brilliant speakers and their provocative talks booked for the second evening of Land Talks are:

​🤠 Dutton vs Developers: What a Montana Soap Opera Teaches Britain About Land Power by Alys Key

​Out in Yellowstone, Kevin Costner’s cowboy John Dutton bends every rule, even snagging the governorship, to stop resorts, pipelines and YIMBY-friendly condos. Alys flips the Hollywood script, asking why the show paint builders and planners as existential threats, and what can that teach British reformers about messaging, trust and winning hearts?

​📉 Chart-astrophe: The Numbers Behind Britain’s Housing Squeeze by Lauren Thomas

​The data doesn’t lie: Britain’s housing squeeze is real and it’s tightening fast. Lauren charts how Britain’s housing crisis went from manageable to suffocating and paints a stark picture of where we’re heading if we stay on our current path.

​🏠 Forgotten Frontline: Lessons from Homelessness Workers by Jane Dowden

​What does having a home really mean – and what breaks when people lose that foundation? Jane surveyed frontline homelessness workers nationwide, revealing the crushing pressures they face and the structural barriers to progress. How can we get everyone safe, secure and suitable housing, by supporting both homeless people and those who work to help them?

​📮 PAF’d Off: How Britain’s Address Data Became a Hidden Tax on Innovation by James O'Malley

​Britain’s tangled address data regime quietly blocks thousands of innovations before they even start. James reveals how the Postcode Address File became a costly gatekeeper to a more abundant Britain and what it will take to set this vital data free.

​🇪🇸 Olive Grove Approvals: Inside Spain’s Turbo Planning System and the White-Collar Crime it Fuels by Tim Kershaw

​In Spain, a single architect’s rubber stamp can turn an olive grove into a skyline. Tim sets this turbo-charged system against Britain’s planning slog, weighing its virtues – speed, agility and productivity – against its darker flipside: scant oversight that has historically fuelled white-collar crime, putting mayors, architects and developers behind bars.

​📜 From Freehold to Fairhold: Rewiring Land One Deed at a Time by Alastair Parvin

​Unaffordable homes, stalled schemes, rent-fuelled poverty and slow-motion climate collapse – they all stem from one contradiction: we treat homes both as places to live and as assets to make money from. Alastair shows how this contradiction warps every corner of the economy, and sketches-out Fairhold, a new form of land ownership that replaces land speculation with stewardship.

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