Dr Laura Alvarez - urban planning maverick and food landscape visionary

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NGFP Local Lunch

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Hello and welcome to our weekly NGFP Local Lunch podcast where we provide you, our lovely listeners everything you need to know about Nottingham’s local food heroes and how you can get more involved in our vibrant local food scene! Local lunch is brought to you by me Shona Munro and me Penney Poyzer of Nottingham Good Food Partnership the go to organisation for sustainable food in our fair city. Today is a big day for NGFP as it marks the launch of the Wellbeing Design Guide which we have been co-authoring with our guest today. But first Lunch! Today we will be chatting over a butternut squash risotto topped with slow cooked onions flavoured with lemon thyme straight from the gardens at NGFP HQ! It is cheap, tasty and filling and perfect for a blustery day. Our guest this week is a true pioneer and urban planning maverick! She is Dr Laura Alvarez who is senior principal, urban design and conservation officer for Nottingham City Council. Laura is the East Midlands Convenor for the Urban Design Group and was amongst the first recognised urban design practitioners in the UK. She is currently a Senior Principal Urban Design and Conservation Officer at Nottingham City Council, where she is developing the Design Quality Framework for the City, which includes bringing together various partnerships to co-create the design guides and establishing changes to planning and engagement processes for the city. She had an active role in launching and co-running the Urban Room where she acts as Lead Curator. And that is just the tip of the iceberg! She is also a published critic and contributor to national publications, TV and radio! Laura is from the beautiful city of La Plata, Argentina which had a profound influence on her work as an urban planner and architect. Next week our format changes slightly when we will be recording the podcast at Luisa’s Vegan Chocolates in Sneinton Market. Luisa is a gold medal chocolatier. We will be seeing how they make their bean to bar chocolate and hearing about her personal relationships with her suppliers who are female farmers - in Colombia! So tune in next week to our podcast trailer which will be going out Wednesday and of course to next Friday at 1.30pm. Simply search for NGFP Local Lunch on your browser and we will pop up! See you then! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ngfplocallunch/message