Gary Neville, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart among star names due to join 6,000 at huge Leeds real estate conference

Neville will be discussing Zerum Consult, a development, planning and sustainable design consultancy of which he is a co-director.

His property firm Relentless is at the helm of the £200m Manchester city centre development St Michael’s, at the former Bootle Street police station. The project, comprising a nine-story office block adjacent to Albert Square, with a rooftop restaurant and bar on the terrace, will complete its first phase this year.

Also due to be in attendance are Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, who now co-present The Rest is Politics podcast.

The pair were invited by Related Argent, the developer responsible for King’s Cross mega-development. They’ll be in conversation with Leader of Camden Council, Councillor Georgia Gould, discussing ‘Leading Cities’, with themes of regeneration and the role developers can play in private-public partnerships.

MasterChef winner Simon Wood will separately be running a breakfast event, bringing attention to Bolton Council’s new food festival – the largest in Europe, attracting 460,000 visitors.

Nathan Spencer, director UKREiiF, said “To gain visibility by investors, it’s really important that UKREiiF offers options for all cities, towns or local authorities to be involved. We’ve established a programme that allows for organisations of all sizes to share their stories; there’s no other offer like it for this market in the UK.”