POS Spring Conference 2011 - Moving Localism Forward

Date: 6/6/2011

Planning Officers are in the forefront of implementing the wide ranging changes introduced in the Bill This event considered how local authorities can start to move all of the initiatives forward.

POS invited a team of speakers from across the planning and development industry, to discuss the issues at a significant one day event in central London. Separate workshop streams within the programme considered the areas of "Strategic planning & economic development" and "Neighbourhood planning".

 Programme

• Welcome - Stephen Tapper, President, POS
• Keynote Address - Jack Dromey MP, Shadow Minister for Communities & Local Government  
• Progress on the Bill - Shona Dunn, Director of Planning, CLG
• The Land & Society Commission's Recommendations Trevor Beattie, Chairman, Land & Society Commission, RICS
• Choice of two workshop streams
  • Strategic planning and economic development Led by Catriona Riddell  with presentations by 
    • Cllr Del Goddard, LB Enfield
    • Kate Henderson, TCPA
    • Stephen Catchpole, Tees Valley Unlimited
    • Jessica Bauly, CBI
  • Neighbourhood planning Led by Nicky Linihan  with presentations by
    • Jeff Bishop, BDOR
    • Colin James, LDA Design
    • Phillip James, Planning Aid for London 
    • Joanne Woodward, LB Enfield

• The potential for growth in the suburbs Will McKee, Chair of the Mayor of London's Outer London Commission

• Is the new planning framework the right one for growth? Roger Hepher, Head of Planning & Regeneration, Savills 

• Delivering housing in difficult market conditions Anthony Lee, Director, BNP Paribas

• Is local government ready?

   Prof Tony Travers, London School of Economics 

• Panel Discussion Speakers + Mike De'Ath, HTA (Design) and David Jolley, Urban Vision 

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