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Development planning
Getting the best development on site
| Date | 25 September 2013 |
|---|---|
| Duration | 1 Day |
| Price | GBP 449 + VAT |
| Location | London |
| Venue | The Hatton (etc Venues) |
| Registration | 9.00-9.30 |
| Close of Seminar | 4.30 |
| Our code | 39247 |
| Also held on | There are no other dates for this event confirmed yet. Please call us on 0845 120 9602 for more information. |
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Why you should attend
In today’s economic climate and under a new era of ‘Localism’, the conference examines way in which to lead, articulate and successfully negotiate exemplary, viable development. This requires creativity and insight into design, sustainability, stakeholder management and commercial realities.
This Briefing and Workshop 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 event for all planners, from whatever sector, who are passionate about creating better places for people.
Who should attend?
- Local authority planners and urban designers 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 to:
1. Inject some vision and creativity into the planning and development process
2. Ensure that your decisions on land use are robust, practicable and based on a proper understanding of the site
3. Understand the constraints and possibilities open to developers
4. Create a planning environment which enables the best to be achieved
5. Gain the support of applicants and community alike in a non-adversarial way
6. Learn new assessment and engagement techniques
Programme
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome and introduction by the chair
Peter Frankum, Director and UK Head of Urban Design, Savills
9.40 Masterplanning through assessment and engagement
- Designing for localism - how to engage communities in the development process
- How good urban design principle should lead to quality design and lasting places
Peter Frankum, Director of Masterplanning and Urban Design, Savills
10.20 Local authority, localism and development management
- The need for a clear and shared vision
- Reconciling the need for the development to be sustainable, affordable and liveable
- The implications of the localism agenda and the duty to cooperate
- The importance of establishing an effective process to bring forward a quality development
- Current examples of successful and some less successful developments
Nigel Green, Winchester City Council
11.00 Coffee and networking
11.20 Workshop on processes for assessing and developing proposals for a site
What criteria should be considered for a large scale development? What issues would need to be resolved and how best to understand and resolve them? The afternoon will provide information to further review these processes and provide a reality check (including viability)
Peter Frankum and Nigel Green
12.40 Lunch
1.40 Round up from the morning workshop
2.00 Sustainable biodiverse design
Mike Wells, Biodoversity by Design
2. 40 Movement and places
- Structuring places for walking and cycling
- Creating great streets and the difference between streets and roads
- Manual for Streets
- Designing streets and places for people
Andrew Cameron, Director, WSP Group
3.20 Development economics and viability
- The increasing importance of viability in planning
- What should a viability study include
- Understanding financial development appraisals
- The workings of S106 and CIL
- Working with developers and their agents
Atam Verdi, Partner, Aspinall Verdi
4.00 Questions and discussion
4.20 Conclusion by the chair
Peter Frankum
4.30 Close
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”
