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Last week I spoke at the Housing Technology conference, run by the magazine of that name. I was asked to go to the East Midlands Conference Centre at Nottingham University to give a short speech and accept an award, which I did.
Seemingly always on and off the train these days, I relished that the morning after the conference I could walk from the campus to the station in town. I walked along a canal, past parts of old industrial Nottingham now converted into bars and houses and offices for a new post-industrial