This is the fifth in the series of lectures, Chaired by Hayley Palmer - Chair of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation North West.

Led by the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and the Transport Planning Society, this lecture will focus on the role of transport in dock development and subsequent waterside regeneration.

The Albert Dock lecture series seeks to celebrate the Dock as an exemplary heritage-led regeneration project and acknowledge the range of built environment professionals involved in its success.  

The series will also look to the future and the lessons learnt, and examine a range of comparison projects. The events are held every six months in the build up to the 175th anniversary of the Albert Dock in 2021, with a different built environment professional group taking the lead each time.

Please book your place online here

Andy Barr
Assistant Director Highways and Planning at Liverpool City Council, will speak about the planned £100M investment in the Waterfront highway infrastructure over the next 3 years and how this will benefit the Royal Albert dock. Andy has been at Liverpool City council since 2007 and has nearly 30 years of experience in the highways industry. He is overseeing a £500M programme on major infrastructure works across Liverpool’s roads over the next 5 years. He also manages the City Council’s planning department and the parking services team.

Sharon Brown
Curator of Land Transport and Water at the Museum of Liverpool, will speak about the transport of people and goods to and from Albert Dock during its previous existence as a Dock warehouse.

Sharon has been a Curator at Liverpool Museums for two decades, and before this was curator at the University of Liverpool’s Catalyst Museum of the Chemical industry.

Professor Richard D. Knowles
Emeritus Professor of Transport Geography at the University of Salford, and Visiting Professor of Transport, University of Huddersfield, will compare landside access to the Royal Albert Dock, Manchester Docks (Salford Quays), West India Docks (Canary Wharf) and the Inner Harbour and Nordhavn, Copenhagen, in both the industrial and postindustrial eras. Professor Knowles specialises in transport geography at the University of Salford. He has also been a local Councillor and Leader of Oldham Council.