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Getting the best development on site conference
This conference will provide delegates with the inspiration, ideas and tools to achieve what all planners should be concerned about - getting the best development on site. In today's world and economic climate, leading, articulating and successfully negotiating exemplary, viable development requires creativity and insight into design, sustainability, stakeholder management, commercial realities.
24 September 2010
1 Day
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GBP 449 + VAT
London
9.00-9.30
4.30
35608
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Why you should attend this conference
Fed up with getting blamed for allowing ‘that will do’ development? Wanting to know the latest approaches to advise your client on? Stumped by the persuasive arguments of developers? Frustrated by not being able to articulate best practice design principles to Councillors? Not sure if an applicant is pulling wool over your eyes? Wanting to take a more proactive approach but don’t know how? Leading on a major redevelopment project and feeling a bit lost? If these sound familiar questions, then this conference will help unpack the latest approaches to shaping places in the ‘new world order’. Long gone are adversarial approaches to development management, in are collaborative ways of working with all stakeholders to position and embed places within the intrinsic fabric of their environmental, social and economic landscape. This is a must attend conference for all planners, from whatever sector, who are passionate about creating better places for people.
Who should attend?
- Local authority planners dealing with major and minor developments
- Regeneration officials leading or brokering urban renewal projects
- Planning and regeneration consultants in the private and voluntary sectors
- Developers, surveyors and others involved in the development industry
- Councillors whose portfolio includes planning, environment and regeneration
Key benefits
This conference will help you:
- Inject some vision and creativity into the planning and development process
- Ensure that your decisions on land use are robust, practicable and based on a proper understanding of the site
- Understand the constraints and possibilities open to developers
- Create a planning environment which enables the best to be achieved
- Gain the support of applicants and community alike in a non-adversarial way
Conference programme
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome and introduction by the chair
Peter Frankum, Director Urban Design Savills
9.40 Masterplanning: the process of placemaking its role in guiding development
- Why place distinctiveness and quality design is essential in today's world and beyond
- How to engage people in design appraisals
- How good urban design principle should lead to quality design and lasting places
Peter Frankum, Director Urban Design, Savills
10.20 Design for movement: Delivering quality places
- Connecting people and places
- Creating streets not roads
- Latest thinking on street design
- Dealing with parking and retaining a sense of 'place'
Andrew Cameron, Director, WSP
11.00 Coffee and networking
11.20 Architecture and responding to the site and context:
- Responding to context
- Developing a rationale for quality development
Alain Head, Shepheard Epstein Hunter Architects
12.00 Planning in the new economy: perspectives from the panel and open forum
12.40 Lunch
1.40 Sustainability: how to embed into development
- Sustainable site
- Sustainable building standards – future aspirations, current best practice
- Low carbon development
Roya Khaleeli, Inbuilt
2.25 Commercial viability: making it stack up
- Development Economics - an overview
- Understanding financial development appraisals
- Working with developers and their agents
- Open book approaches
- Knowing when and how public investment is required
- Understanding what can kill or save viable developments whilst delivering quality aspirations
Atam Verdi, Partner, Aspinall Verdi
3.10 The local authority: taking a strong lead
- Building consensus around design quality
- Setting design standards with partners
- Managing the process - using a Strategic Sites Manual
- Being sensitive to market reality - the use of 'deferred contributions'
Nigel Green
3.55 Panel discussion
4.20 Conclusion by chair
4.30 Close of conference
Conference chair
Peter Frankum is Director and National Coordinator of Urban Design at Savills. He takes a holistic approach to the planning and design process, drawing on his wide range of experience in both the private and public sectors. His particular strengths are in the fields of urban design, master planning, design frameworks and managing major regeneration projects. With qualifications in both planning and urban design, he has diverse strengths within the planning and design process. He also has extensive knowledge and experience in the field of stakeholder and public participation.
Conference speakers
Nigel Green established his own consultancy in January 2004, offering planning, urban design and regeneration advice exclusively to the public sector. For the past 5 years he has acted as consultant to Winchester City Council in respect of their major developments; this includes the Major Development Area at West of Waterlooville, which has recently been granted outline planning consent, and detailed approval for the design codes.
Alain Head is Chairman of the respected London Architectural practice Shepheard Epstein Hunter. He has worked extensively on housing and education projects but is particularly interested in urban design and the regeneration of our cities. He has worked with local communities to rebuild or restructure several run down areas in London and has been responsible for the design and implementation of a number of inner city development plans, as well as large scale residential refurbishment and improvement schemes.
Roya Khaleeli joined Inbuilt in November 2007 and is part of the Strategic Sustainability Team. She took the lead role in developing Inbuilt’s Framework for Sustainable Development (IFSD) which is based on The Natural Step principles for sustainability and the wide range of knowledge and experience of Inbuilt’s staff. Roya has been involved in delivering training to large organizations and in developing and facilitating Inbuilt’s Visioning Forums. Most recently she’s been working with a design team to embed sustainability into a large urban extension in Hampshire.
Atam Verdi has been working in the Development Consultancy field for over 15 years. He regularly works with public and private sector clients to generate deliverable development proposals and to enable the implementation of these schemes. Atam has worked on several high profile masterplanning/regeneration projects and regularly supports clients in the formulation (and challenge) of planning policy. The understanding of development economics underpins this work. Atam is also a CABE Regional Representative and a Director of Headingley Development Trust.
Quotes from previous participants
q “Excellent knowledgeable speakers”
q “An amazing range of ideas”
q “Very good – interesting and a wide range of issues discussed”
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CPD requirements
This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requirements
