Sustainable Development Conference
Now in its 8th year, this conference will explore collaborative working and new procedures to deliver sustainable communities through behavioural change that result from Local Area Agreements, opportunities associated with Community Infrastructure Levy. A series of tools will be presented to aid the delivery of sustainable communities.
18 May 2011
1 Day
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GBP 489 + VAT
London
9.00-9.30
4.30
36535
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What is this conference about?
Now in its 8th year, this year’s annual conference will provide up to date information, explore best practice and consider some of the initiatives to deliver sustainable development through good planning. We will explore new ways of working and procedures to deliver sustainable communities through taking into account the changing political arena and the growing pressures to respond to climate change.
This conference will include:
- Update in political expectations in delivering sustainable communities
- How planning is responding to climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Sustainable construction
- Delivering energy generating solutions
- Opportunities from the new legislation
- Sustainable transport solutions for sustainable development
- Working through Sustainable Community Strategies, Local area Agreements and Local Development Frameworks
- Delivering behavioural change
Who should attend?
- Planners engaged in policy and development control
- Planning consultants
- Related professionals
- Academics, researchers
- Commercial, housing and retail developers/investors
- Community groups
- Environmental organisations
Benefits of attending
Attending this conference will help you:
- Look at the proposals for a statutory Community Infrastructure Levy
- Gain up to-date knowledge on how planning policy, climate change and delivering sustainable communities through Sustainable Community Strategies, Local Area Agreements and Local Development Frameworks
- Understand opportunities associated with new legislation and the up to date position with the Community Infrastructure Levy
- Learn about technical solutions to sustainable construction and energy generation
- Understand communication strategies to deliver behavioural change
Conference Speakers
Conference Chair
Sandra Fryer is a Director of Sustainable Works a company specialising in planning, sustainable development and regeneration management and projects. Sandra has over seventeen years strategic management experience in a range of Council’s across the UK. She is currently interim Divisional Director Regeneration and Enterprise at the London Borough of Lambeth.
Conference speakers
Rachel Coxcoon joined CSE in May 2005, and works on project development. Rachel was the driving force behind the development of several of CSE’s biggest projects including ‘Our Big Energy Challenge’ and ‘Warming Bristol’. She also worked with the Forestry Commission and the offices of ten Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty to access European Funding to establish the Coordinated Woodfuel Initiative, which supported the installation of domestic-scale biomass heating in the South West of England.
Dr Hugh Ellis was appointed Chief Planner at the Town and Country Planning Association in March 2009. Prior to this, Hugh was national planning advisor to Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland since 2000. After spending a number of years working for the Coalfield Planning Cooperative on community planning projects Hugh took up a teaching and research post at the University of Sheffield where his key interests where sustainable development and community participation.
Jon Harris has worked for over 20 years in the field of town and transport planning within local authority and consultancy environments. He has worked within a wide range of settings ranging from policy to implementation, and has a thorough and practical understanding of the important relationship between land use planning, transport planning and regeneration.
Seema Manchanda is currently the Service Director Strategic Planning and Regeneration at the London Borough of Islington. Her role involves leading on a diverse range of agendas including planning policy, strategic transport, council led regeneration schemes, social regeneration, third sector issues, adult and community learning and corporate GIS.
Dr Tim Williams is managing director within Navigant’s Public Services practice. He runs the Regeneration and Investment Advisory team of 25 specialists who are developing cutting edge policy, strategy, financing approaches, procurement advice and delivery solutions for public and private clients involved in housing, urban regeneration , development and capital programmes of all kinds.
Craig White is a founding Director of White Design with 25 years’ experience in architectural practice in the UK and Europe and has been involved in low energy and sustainable design since the 1980s. Craig founded White Design in 1998 with fellow Director Linda Farrow. White Design’s founding principle is to help create beautiful, affordable places that enable our clients to live, work and learn more sustainably.
Conference programme
9.00 Coffee and registration
9.30 Welcome and introduction by the chair
Sandra Fryer, Director, Sustainable Works
9.40 Update in political expectations in delivering sustainable communities
- The economic downturn and fiscal crisis have led to the stalling of housing and regeneration projects everywhere. How has this situation impacted on the commitment to sustainability?
- In resurrecting the housing industry will we have to reduce regulatory burdens and what does that mean for the green agenda?
- House builders are already looking for green field sites and to return to lower density development: what should policy makers do in these new circumstances
Tim Williams, Managing Director - Regeneration and Housing Advisory, Navigant Consulting (Europe) Ltd
10.20 How planning is responding to climate change mitigation and adaptation
- The relevance of sustainable development as a guiding principle for planning in an era of major real world challenges from globalisation and climate change
- The detailed implementation of the sustainable development vision through initiative such as eco towns
Dr Hugh Ellis, Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning Association
11.00 Coffee and networking
11.20 Be the change you want to see - Designing for low carbon behaviours in new and existing buildings
- The difference between predicted and actual performance of CO2 reduction measures
- How behaviour change can have a greater impact on CO2 reduction than any single technology
- Behaviour change, whether as the client, the designer or the user, is where new approaches will need to be found
Craig White, Director, White Design
12.00 Delivering low carbon communities
- The need for communities to engage with low carbon planning
- Experiences from the first year of PlanLoCaL
- Challenges for the planning system and how it might respond
Rachel Coxcoon, Senior Development & Project Manager, Centre for Sustainable Energy
12.40 Panel discussion
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Planning legislation at the heart of delivering sustainable communities
Lynda Addison, Managing Director, Addison and Associates
2.40 Working through Sustainable Community Strategies, Local Area Agreements and Local Development Frameworks
- Islington's Sustainability and Climate Change policies and programmes
Seema Manchanda, Service Director - Strategic Planning and Regeneration, London Borough of Islington
3.20 Sustainable transport solutions for sustainable communities
- The carbon benefits of well-planned transport packages
- Using Section 106 to deliver strategic benefits
- How carbon savings can still be achieved where a car-based culture and economy is important to local people and their agenda
- The pivotal role of local communities
Jon Harris, Technical Director – Smarter Choices, Mouchel
4.00 Panel discussion
4.20 Chair’s closing comments
4.30 Close of conference
Quotes from previous participants...
q 'Excellent speakers. Nice handouts and good mix of issues '
q 'Good range of elements that made up the conference '
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In-house training
In-house training can be presented exclusively for your organisation on any subject in the planning and development field, including management skills. Training is individually tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation .
To discuss your in-house requirements please contact Sarah Miller on 020 7960 5692 or e-mail sarah.miller@rtpiconferences.co.uk
