Venue: The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT 

We would like to invite you to explore one of Europe’s most ambitious community-led housing projects at The TCPA x PPR Belfast Reception: ‘Take Back the City’, on the 17 September at The Building Centre, London, kindly supported by Northcot Brick.

PPR has been supporting Take Back the City, a coalition of homeless families, academics, and experts including Queen’s University Belfast, Rabble Cooperative, and the TCPA, to develop a vision of a high quality, non-sectarian, zero-carbon development at a large ex-industrial site in West Belfast.

It is an extraordinary vision for a post-conflict city where housing allocation has been a source of tension for decades. What is even more extraordinary is how this vision is becoming a reality. 

In June 2023, the London-based Matthew Lloyd Architects were announced as winners of the Take Back the City Urban Design Competition. Sponsored by Oak Foundation, the competition saw a shortlist of 11 entrants from across the globe, with designs aimed at transforming the 13 hectares Mackie’s site into a sustainable community, setting a precedent for developments across Belfast to tackle both the housing and climate crises.

We would like to invite you to the ‘Take Back the City’ reception event, hosted by The TCPA and PPR Belfast. The event will be a chance to celebrate the progress that has already been made, as well as the plans for the site’s immediate and long-term future.  

To find out more, please click here.  

The event will feature guest speakers from a variety of individuals and organisations who have been a part of the site’s journey and success so far. Due to venue capacity, we have limited spaces available at this event.