On 5th December 2024, SASIG and the LGA hosted a webinar for Local Authorities across the UK, designed to provide an introduction to the fledgling industry.

The presentations from that Webinar can be downloaded here.



Each of the individual presentations can also be accessed separately below

Commercial Operative Perspective

Mike Hibberd, UAS Safety Manager, Texo

Droneports and Vertiport – Design and Development

David Tooth, Managing Director, Gebler Tooth

Local Authority Perspective

Michael Thornton, Heathrow Strategic Planning Group

Planning and Governance

Chris Cain, Policy Director, Strategic Aviation Special Interest Group

Preparing Regional/City or Local AAM Plans

Theo Panayi, Associate Technical Director, Arcadis and Jason Buckland, Director, Air & Land Mobility (Transportation) and Social Infrastructure, Arcadis

Social and Community Perspectives

Fern Elsdon-Baker, Professor of Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society University of Birmingham

Forecast Demand

Darryl Swanson, Partner and Co-Founder, EA Maven



SASIG Questionnaire on Local Authority Preparedness and Attitudes to Advanced Mobility

To help frame the agenda for engagement with Government policy makers, regulators, the industry, communities and wider stakeholder interests, SASIG is also undertaking a survey of Local Authority preparedness and attitudes towards Advanced Air Mobilities. It can be found via the link below and we should be grateful if you could complete it on behalf of your authority; more than one submission from an individual authority is both permissible and welcome. Copies of the results will be forwarded to all authorities who complete the survey.

Please click here to visit the survey