HBF Planning Conference 2010
A packed room of senior industry delegates listened to experts presenting and debating on the coalition’s new localism agenda at the HBF’s planning conference 2010.
CLG’s director general Richard McCarthy told industry to “bear with” the government as it worked through the details of its localism policies. He said that more details of the government’s interim measures following the removal of regional spatial strategies would be available in the spending review next month, as well as further information on the New Homes Bonus.
Other speakers included Teignbridge District Council’s Mike Haines who addressed the challenges of localism, and Three Dragons’ Kathleen Dunmore, who explored land viability against the new agenda. The afternoon saw David Hackforth Associates’ David Hackforth, PPS Group’s Nick Suttcliffe and HBF’s John Stewart debate the practicalities of the localism approach.
Planning directors, managers and executives
Housing associations
Planning consultants
Architects
Design directors, managers and executives
Government officials
Local planning authorities
Where
The Hilton Hotel, Woodlands Avenue, Bradley Stoke, Bristol BS32 4JFAgenda
Conference agenda - 09.30-16.00
Conference Chair
Andrew Whitaker, HBF
The planning system
Richard McCarthy, CLG
New models of communitiy involvement
Karen Cooksley, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
The challenge of locaslim
Councillor Mike Haines, Teignbridge District Council and Deputy Chair, LGA Envrironment and Housing Programme Board
Mediation in planning
Abigaille Bromfield, ATLAS
Viability modelling
Kathleen Dunmore, Three Dragons
WORKSHOP
Making localism work
Burden of regulation debate
David Hackforth, David Hackforth Associates
Nick Sutcliffe, PPS Group
John Stewart, HBF
Grotton revisited: Planning in crisis
Chris Shepley, Chris Shepley Planning
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