November Events
Planning for climate change conference
Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. Already we have seen a change in weather patterns with an increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. The impact on social, economic and environmental factors will be vast and planners play one of the most important roles in tackling climate change. This is a must attend conference!
4 November 2010
1 Day
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GBP 449 + VAT
London
Venue not yet confirmed
9.00-9.30
4.30
35615
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Why you should attend this conference
Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. Already we have seen a change in weather patterns with an increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. The impact on social, economic and environmental factors will be vast and planners play one of the most important roles in tackling climate change. This conference allows a reflection on the role planners can take towards climate change, in the light of conflicting evidence that it is occurring, and in response to the new Government’s emerging policy to embrace it in spatial planning.
Who should attend?
This briefing conference is designed for:
- Planners
- Public sector planners with responsibility for climate change
- Elected members
- Environmental bodies
- Strategic and forward planners
- Development management planners
- Strategic transport planners
- Water and coastal engineers
Key benefits
This conference will help you:
1. Understand the scientific evidence suggesting climate change is real
2. Listen to representatives from government and its policies for climate change
3. Understand what planners can and can’t do about climate change
4. Learn about outstanding examples of planning for climate change, and what made them possible
5. Appreciate how planning for Britain’s coast, including its ports, will be affected
6. Consider how design of buildings and structures should anticipate climate change
7. Recognise that taking an integrated approach on managing water in the planning process is essential
8. Think how transport planning should respond to long-term environmental changes
Conference programme:
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome and introduction by the chair
Roger Prescott, Principal Planner – Engineering and Environment, Mouchel
9.40 Climate change overview
- Summary of current situation
- Implications of climate change for energy, infrastructure and planning
- Climate change policies relevant for planners DECC representative
10.20 An alternative view of climate change
- A populist examination of the climate change debate
- What is the scientific evidence?
11.00 Coffee and networking
11.20 Climate change guidance
- The principal objectives of the Planning Act 2008 and Climate Change Act 2008 and implications for planners
- How the Act might impact upon planners
- Guidance for planners? – Planning Policy Statements and Climate Change
- Planning obligations and climate change
Susie Hilton, Head of Sustainability, Manches
12.00 Coastal planning
- How will Britain’s coast be affected by climate change?
- Ports
- Coastal infrastructure
- Case study on Knipe Point
Stewart Rowe, Principal Coastal Officer, Scarborough Borough Council
12.40 Panel discussion
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Adapting design to deal with climate change
- The scientific and policy context
- Adapting to climate change – design responses
- Towards a low carbon economy – implications for planners and designers
- Emerging best practice and project case studies
Professor Robert Tregay, Senior Partner, LDA Design
2.40 Is transport responding to the implications of climate change?
- How important is climate change to transport planning – is it relevant?
- How is transport planning responding – are we making progress?
- What should planning and transport planning be seeking to do and how can they do it?
- Do we have the right skills, knowledge and tools?
Lynda Addison, Director, Addison and Associates
3.20 Planning in the water cycle
- How climate change will change the use of water
- Delivering sustainable solutions
Andy McConkey, Principal Consultant, Halcrow
4.00 Panel discussion
4.20 Conclusion and close of conference
Conference chair
Roger Prescott, who leads Mouchel’s planning team, is an environmental planner who has worked on many major infrastructure proposals, most associated with transport and water resource planning. The former coastal officer for Hampshire, he has been closely involved with strategic planning for the coast and also for flood management – including leading the planning input into the Environment Agency’s catchment flood management plan for the River Severn. Roger has worked on proposals for renewable energy and nuclear generation.
Conference speakers
Lynda Addison is Managing Director of Addison & Associates, which she established 13 years ago. Since its establishment, she has worked at national and local level supporting authorities in improving their services in planning and transport, preparing good practice guidance on travel planning, and developing methodologies to assess performance of planning services and resourcing requirements. She led the preparation of “Using the planning system to secure travel plans” (ODPM/DfT 2002), Making Residential Travel Plans work” (DfT2005) and the recent new publication “Delivering Travel Plans through the Planning Process – Good Practice Guidelines” (CLG/DfT 2009).
Susie Hilton heads the cross-departmental Sustainability Team at Manches and is also a member of our projects team. She has extensive experience in the structuring of complex projects, including public-private partnership projects. These involve the funding of a capital asset and payback through long-term performance-related contractual arrangements.
Andy McConkey has been at Halcrow since 2003 and is currently the Principal Consultant for water cycle planning. He was previously a Water Quality Regulatory Officer for the Environment Agency. Professor Robert Tregay is Senior Partner of LDA Design, one of the UK’s leading integrated design and environmental consultancies. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Wales. Robert has been associated with many nationally significant projects including the proposed South Downs National Park, Thames Gateway and the ecological landscapes of Warrington New Town. He is preparing environmental strategies for one of the zero-carbon Eco-towns and is lead masterplanner for some of the largest and most ambitious development projects in the UK.
Stewart Rowe is the Principal Coastal Officer for Scarborough District Council.
About the Environmental Planning and Protection Network
RTPI Environmental Planning & Protection Network: The RTPI Environmental Planning & Protection Network enables members to make better informed decisions, offering opportunities to develop and share knowledge on key environmental issues such as planning and climate change. Membership is FREE and you do not have to be a member of the RTPI to join. Email epp@rtpi.org.uk for further information.
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