The Public Sector, Property & City Logistics Theatre connects those shaping urban space with those who depend on reliable deliveries. It explores how to provide viable logistics space, manage kerbside access, make shared facilities work and use procurement and receiving arrangements to improve deliveries. Hospitals, hospitality businesses, construction sites and major estates sit alongside authorities, developers and operators in the discussion. Visitors gain practical lessons on funding, planning and turning pilots into lasting services, with opportunities to explore the property, infrastructure, data and operational expertise across the exhibition and identify partners who can help put those lessons into practice. 

Agenda

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10:00
  1. A freight strategy for a working city: what needs to change on the ground?
    • What retailers, hospitals, hospitality businesses, construction sites and public services need from a city freight strategy
    • How priorities in London’s Logistics Plan connect to practical decisions about access, infrastructure and investment
    • The delivery responsibilities and measures that turn policy ambitions into better service for businesses and residents
10:20
  1. The emerging London Plan: protecting space for freight and logistics
    • Distinguish adopted planning requirements from emerging proposals for industrial land, freight capacity and the needs created by new housing
    • How relocating or losing logistics space affects delivery distances, service costs and neighbouring areas
    • The evidence occupiers, developers and boroughs need to contribute to the emerging plan and support current planning decisions
10:40
  1. Delivery and servicing plans that work after the building opens
    • How predicted deliveries should shape loading space, vehicle access and receiving arrangements before occupation
    • Who takes responsibility for booking, enforcement and monitoring when designers and contractors hand over
    • What actual delivery patterns reveal about plans that need changing once a site is in use
11:00
  1. Networking break
11:20
  1. Fireside: River freight: making the wharf-to-door journey work
    • Which goods, volumes and delivery windows can support a dependable river service
    • How wharf access, handling, storage and final delivery determine whether a multimodal freight service is dependable
    • Where river freight can compete on reliability, road movements and total cost – and what limits its use
11:50
  1. Rail into London: connecting the terminal with the final mile
    • When shipment size, frequency and consolidation make rail a practical part of an urban supply chain
    • What terminal access, handling and onward distribution must deliver to meet the customer’s schedule
    • Compare road-only and rail-linked routes on cost, reliability and road mileage, including every transfer and final-mile movement
12:10
  1. Construction logistics: fewer movements without delaying the build
    • How delivery bookings, supplier coordination and consolidation can adapt to changing phases of a live project
    • Where better materials handling and safer access reduce disruption to site teams, neighbours and road users
    • What vehicle movements, waiting time and site productivity reveal about the value of the logistics plan
12:30
  1. Fewer journeys or displaced traffic? Proving a city logistics scheme works
    • Which baseline measures capture the effects on traffic, safety, emissions and local businesses
    • How to distinguish a real improvement from activity moved to another street, time or operator
    • Choose proportionate measures that help funders and communities decide whether a scheme should continue, change or stop
12:50
  1. Networking break
13:10
  1. Airports and campuses: coordinating deliveries across a complex estate
    • How an estate maps demand across occupiers and sets booking, security and receiving arrangements that suppliers can follow
    • Where shared receiving and internal distribution reduce queues and duplicate journeys without delaying essential goods
    • What an estate operator needs to measure about supplier waiting, staff time and service continuity before expanding the model
13:30
  1. Who pays for shared urban logistics infrastructure?
    • What customer commitments and income streams make a shared hub or loading facility investable
    • How leases, user charges and public support affect the asset’s cash flow and funding options
    • Where construction, demand and long-term ownership risks should sit before investment is committed
13:50
  1. Panel: Housing growth and logistics land: who makes room for both?
    • How to establish the logistics capacity new homes and businesses need before industrial land changes use
    • Where co-location, intensification or a separate logistics site offers the most workable solution
    • What planners, developers and occupiers must agree about access, neighbours and long-term operating needs
14:30
  1. Fireside: Who gets the kerb? Making loading space work for a busy city
    • How to balance loading with passenger transport, walking, cycling and accessible street space
    • What operators and local businesses can reveal about the location and timing of unmet loading demand
    • Which allocation and enforcement choices improve access without simply displacing the problem
15:00
  1. Networking break
15:20
  1. Beyond the loading bay: can the building receive what the city delivers?
    • Why goods-in space, parcel storage, lifts and internal distribution can determine how long a vehicle stays outside
    • How booking, secure access and staffed or unattended receiving work across homes, offices and public estates
    • Which retrofit changes can improve delivery flow without requiring a complete redesign of the building
15:40
  1. Delivering outside peak hours: will receivers make it work?
    • Which deliveries can move earlier, later or overnight once receiving staff, access and neighbours are considered
    • How quiet equipment, secure handover and permissions make a different delivery window practical
    • Where journey-time and reliability gains outweigh additional receiving costs – and how to prove that in a trial
16:00
  1. Retrofitting urban logistics space: what can an existing building really support?
    • How surveys of access, floor loading, power and fire safety determine whether a building can support a new logistics use
    • Which physical upgrades, permissions and landlord agreements must be resolved before occupation
    • What conversion cost, usable capacity and time to operation reveal about the case for retrofit rather than relocation
16:20
  1. Panel: Can multi-level and mixed-use logistics developments pay their way?
    • Which occupier needs and rental assumptions justify the extra cost of building logistics space upwards or alongside other uses
    • How floor loading, vehicle access, noise and operating hours affect design and lettability
    • What investors and occupiers can learn from the trade-offs between new development and retrofit
10:00
  1. Public procurement: buying better service with fewer deliveries
    • How councils, universities and public estates can coordinate ordering and delivery frequency across departments
    • What changes when receiving and transport costs are considered alongside the purchase price
    • How to turn the buyer’s delivery requirements into a workable tender, supplier mobilisation plan and service measures that smaller suppliers can meet
10:20
  1. Hospital logistics: protecting clinical service while reducing deliveries
    • How clinical priorities determine the timing, reliability and handling of supplies, specimens and equipment
    • Where consolidation, better replenishment and specialist transport can reduce urgent journeys without putting supply continuity at risk
    • What patient-facing services need from the logistics evidence before a new operating model is extended
10:40
  1. Panel: Drone delivery: when does the air route improve the service?
    • Which goods and routes justify an air service once urgency, payload, weather and the ground alternative are considered
    • How operating approvals, secure landing sites, custody and ground handovers shape a dependable end-to-end service
    • What a buyer must establish about completed deliveries, fallback arrangements and full cost before extending a trial
11:20
  1. Networking break
11:40
  1. Supplying hospitality and major venues in a crowded city
    • How narrow receiving windows and fluctuating demand shape deliveries of food, linen and event supplies
    • Where coordinated schedules or shared receiving can reduce disruption for neighbouring premises
    • What better logistics means for service continuity, waste and the time staff spend handling deliveries
12:00
  1. Digital kerbside management that drivers can actually use
    • What drivers need to know about loading rules and availability before committing to a stop
    • How to connect booking, sensing and enforcement with dispatch tools, allowing for integration costs, staff training and support
    • Which measures show that digital management improves loading and dwell time, including effects on nearby streets
12:20
  1. Fireside: Winning support for freight schemes: resolving access, noise and street-space concerns
    • Whose delivery, access and amenity needs are easily missed when a local scheme is designed
    • How trials and direct involvement can resolve concerns before new loading rules or routes become permanent
    • What feedback and review arrangements help businesses and residents see whether their concerns have been addressed
12:50
  1. Networking break
13:10
  1. Panel: Urban consolidation: who uses it, who pays and when does it work?
    • What shipment volumes, customer commitments and service requirements support a dependable consolidation operation
    • How fewer deliveries at the destination compare with the extra handling, premises and onward transport needed
    • Which charging and service arrangements give customers a reason to join – and remain paying users
13:50
  1. Circular city logistics: making collections as effective as deliveries
    • Which waste, recycling, repair and reuse collections can share urban logistics capacity, including returns of reusable packaging
    • When collections can share routes with deliveries, and where segregation, handling or receiver requirements call for a separate service
    • Assess whether collection density, service income and recovered value cover the full cost of moving materials through the city
14:10
  1. Networking break
14:30
  1. Panel: From pilot to permanent service: what makes a city logistics project last?
    • What must be agreed before a pilot ends about ownership, procurement and the organisation responsible for continuing service
    • How authorities, operators and customers turn trial evidence into a funded operating commitment
    • Why some projects are extended, redesigned or stopped – and which lessons another city can use
15:10
  1. Fireside: Shared freight data and AI: better evidence for city investment
    • Which decisions about hub locations, infrastructure capacity or street use can benefit from shared data and modelling
    • How authorities and operators can exchange usable data across systems while addressing commercial sensitivity and the limits of AI predictions
    • What decision-makers need to know about accuracy, explainability and ongoing cost before acting on a model
15:40
  1. One delivery network, different local rules: making city freight work across boundaries
    • Where consistent access information, data and service arrangements can make cross-boundary operations easier
    • How neighbouring authorities can coordinate decisions while accounting for different streets, land and local demand
    • What a shared delivery plan needs from its owners, funding and performance measures to work beyond a single pilot area

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