22 February 2011
Guests of Honour: Sir Michael Pitt, Chair, Infrastructure Planning Commission; Katrine Sporle, Chief Executive, The Planning Inspectorate and Richard McCarthy, Director General, Housing and Planning, Department for Communities and Local Government
This seminar will consider the way forward for UK planning in light of the Government’s decision to abolish the IPC (Infrastructure Planning Commission) and to re-open consultation on the National Policy Statements for energy infrastructure. Planned sessions consider the impact moving major decisions back to the Secretary of State and creating a new unit at the Planning Inspectorate will have on the UK’s planning system.
Richard McCarthy, Director General, Housing and Planning, Department for Communities and Local Government; Sir Michael Pitt, Chair, Infrastructure Planning Commission and Katrine Sporle, Chief Executive, The Planning Inspectorate have agreed to deliver keynote addresses at this seminar.
Other confirmed speakers include: Kirsten Berry, Partner, Waste Management and Planning, Environmental Resources Management (ERM); Tom Foulkes, Director General, Institution of Civil Engineers; Nigel Hewitson, Partner and Head of Planning, Norton Rose; Steve Hornsby, Partner, Nuclear Industry Leader, Global Business Services UK, IBM; Fiona Howie, Head of Planning, CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England); Professor Janice Morphet, Visiting Professor, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London; Patrick Robinson, Partner and Head of Planning Unit, Burges Salmon; Rachel Ruffle, Development Director, RES UK and Ireland and Professor Alan Wenban-Smith, Principal, Urban & Regional Policy.
Clive Efford MP, Member, Communities and Local Government Select Committee and Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Shadow Minster for Transport have agreed to chair this seminar.
Venue: Sixty One Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET
Delegate fee: £190