Visit Poundbury in Dorset with the Baylight Fellowship from the Academy of British Housing — an experiential learning programme providing this generation’s most ambitious commissioners of new housing with the insight, knowledge and inspiration required to deliver outstanding homes and unlock sustainable future value.

Launched in 1993, Poundbury set out to draw on timeless principles that have enabled many places around Britain to endure and thrive over the centuries. With a walking tour exploring several decades on development on this hilltop site, we will examine the emerging result and ask whether Poundbury really offers an ideal prototype for the future new live and work settlements the UK desperately needs.

Meeting at Waterloo Station, participants will travel by train to Dorset, visiting Poundbury for a critical analysis and tour with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, having lunch together before the afternoon walking crit with guest architecture critic Ross Sharpe and the architect and urban planner Hilary Satchwell before returning to London by train in the evening.

The multi-part course offers an opportunity to join ambitious like-minded professionals for an experiential journey exploring time-honoured elements of successful housing – building long-term collaboration between Baylight Fellows drawn from across the public and private sectors.

Open to everyone with an interest in commissioning ambitious new housing, this is the latest instalment of the Baylight Fellowship following the success of days that explored extraordinary housing in Cambridge, South East England and London.

Prices for the day include train travel to and from London and catering and are £125 for private sector with a £85 concession for those working in the public sector. Tickets include 08.35am train from London Waterloo, returning to Waterloo at 19.51pm.

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The Academy of British Housing connects courageous public and private sector commissioners of new homes with the expertise, insights and passion to create popular and successful housing that will be cherished by generations to come.

It offers fellows the inspiration and embedded learning needed to embrace new perspectives and priorities in housing design, financing and delivery so they can develop both their careers and organisations. The course is suitable for those hoping to learn about the practice of creating extraordinary homes for ordinary people under tight constraints, to see and experience simple and sustainable examples of success, and to meet like-minded people with shared professional goals.

Baylight Fellows completing all modules will receive an Academy of British Housing certificate, a souvenir memento, and be inducted as lifetime members of the Academy of British Housing network offering a wealth of additional networking and professional development opportunities.