Work Hubs and Home Working event

26 October 2011

Maidstone Borough Council's Economic Development team and Kent County Council jointly hosted a knowledge-sharing event on home working, live work and work hubs .

The event was designed to advance understanding of how to:

- Find out what home-based businesses are doing and their value to the future of the economy

- Set up low cost work hubs within existing organisations' buildings

- Set the right planning policies to promote effective homeworking and genuine live/work property

- Link work hubs with public sector staff working from home

- Link to a lower carbon economy and fast broadband

- Support tenants starting businesses from home

The workshop was led by Tim Dwelly, director of Live/Work Network and leading work hub specialist and brought together industry and public sector professionals drawn from across Kent.

For more information about Live Work Network, supporting specialists and to download copies of the presentations given click here

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