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Local plans: Plan and deliver

Date There are no future dates confirmed for this event. Please contact us on 0845 120 9602 if you are interested in this event.

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Why you should attend

We need to deliver development. But we are still committed to development being led by local plans, with sustainable development the objective. Part of what has to be provided for through local plans has to be identified through cross boundary working – strategic planning by localism.

Are these requirements completely incompatible? In many cases the responsibility for making plans lies with authorities opposed to development. More sustainable development isn’t naturally the easiest for the market to deliver. Choices made through plans have to be rooted in evidence. How can we get smarter at putting plans in place that can promote sustainability and demonstrate deliverable development?

The briefing and workshop will examine how, with contributions from six speakers all in the theme of ‘plan and deliver’.

Benefits of attending

This briefing & workshop will help you to:

1. Understand the challenges facing all those involved in spatial planning

2. Be involved in preparing sound plans that meet your needs

3. Update you on government planning and related reforms and their implications

4. Give examples of success in plan making and delivery, and what can be learned from experience so far

Who should attend?

  • Local Planners
  • Planning Consultants
  • Stakeholders
  • Representatives of community organisations
  • Elected Members
  • Members of LSPs
  • Developers and landowners

Programme

9.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Welcome and introduction by the Chair

John Baker, Partner, Peter Brett Associates

9.40 Continuing developments in development planning

  • The role for development plans
  • What might a local plan look like now
  • Progress with plans
  • What happens in the absence of a plan
  • Local plans and neighbourhood plans
  • The role of guidance and PAS

Jane Everton, Deputy Director, Communities and Local Government

10.30 What’s sound now?

  • The ‘can’t fail’ approach to making plans
  • How is the ‘positive planning’ part of the soundness test being applied
  • Dealing with the duty to cooperate between separate but related plans
  • What Inspectors’ mean by flexibility

David Vickery, Senior Housing and Planning Inspector, Planning Inspectorate

11.20 Coffee and networking

11.40 Delivering deliverable plans

  • The critical requirements for a good plan
  • Identifying the housing requirement
  • Testing deliverability
  • Housing provision – the relationship between need and supply
  • Impact of the requirement for a five year supply
  • A deliverable plan and a sustainable plan

John Baker

12.30 Panel discussion

1.00 Lunch

2.00 The interplay of local plans and the presumption in favour of sustainable development according to case law

  • The presumption in plan making context
  • The duty to co-operate and RSS
  • Meeting objectively assessed needs
  • Positive planning
  • SA/SEA

Celina Colquhoun, No 5 Chambers

2.40 Crossing boundaries

  • Interpreting the duty to co-operate
  • Applying the duty in practice
  • Relationships with neighbouring local authorities
  • Attempts to reach agreement on contentious issues
  • Wider city region co-operation and the emergence of the LEP

Andy Duncan, Planning Policy Manager, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

3.20 The relationship of neighbourhood plans with local plans in delivering development

  • NDPs = from the ground upwards
  • Importance of Principal authority support for community preferences/NPs
  • An opportunity for NPs to influence Local Plan/JCS strategies and policies
  • To aid or obstruct community-based planning, that is the question!
  • Key involvement in Winchcombe NP preparation

James Derounian, Principal Lecturer in Community Development and Local Governance, University of Gloucestershire

4.00 Panel discussion

4.20 Chair’s closing comments

John Baker

4.30 Close

Quotes from a previous participant...


q "The event was organised well. There was a wide range of experienced panelists and the coverage of topics was extensive"

q "Excellent range of speakers to give diverse views on the challenges and practices in the new planning system"

In-house training

In-house training can be presented exclusively for your organisation on any subject in the planning and development field, inclusiding 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 3122 0118 or email sarah.miller@rtpiconferences.co.uk

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