BOROUGH OF POOLE

PLANNING COMMITTEE

3 JUNE 2010

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING SUMMER SCHOOL: REPORT BY THE HEAD OF PLANNING AND REGENERATION SERVICES

1.  PURPOSE OF REPORT

1.1  To seek nominations for the Councillors’ Summer School.

2.  RECOMMENDATION

2.1 That two Members be nominated – preferably one from each Party – to

attend the Councillors’ Summer School as part of the Town and Country

Planning Summer School in York between 3 and 7 September.

3.  BACKGROUND

3.1  Each year the Royal Town Planning Institute organises a Summer School for Planning practitioners and Planning based Councillors. This year, the venue is the University of York from 3 to 7 September. A copy of the Programme is

attached to this Report.

3.2  The Summer School offers an excellent opportunity for learning and networking and would be of benefit to any Councillor who has an involvement with the Planning process, regardless of how long they have been elected.

3.3  Early notification to the Head of Planning and Regeneration Services is

essential if first choice Study Tours are to be booked and the Council is to get the benefit of early booking discounts for travel and accommodation.

STEPHEN THORNE

HEAD OF PLANNING AND REGENERATION SERVICES

Elected Members’ School

3-7 September 2010

Summer School and your decision-making

ELECTED MEMBERS’ SCHOOL 2010 – YORK
FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
14.30-15.15 / Briefing Session 1 – Planning law update
Pat Thomas, Pat Thomas Planning Law
15.30-16.45 / Briefing Session 2 – Introduction to planning for newly elected members of the planning committee
Stephen Tapper, President Elect, Planning Officers Society
17.00-17.30 / Making the most of Elected Members’ School
20.00-21.00 / Opening Address
New Government – new planning approach
Rt Hon John Gummer MP
21.00 onwards / Wine reception
Sponsored by the Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA)
SATURDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
09.30-11.00 / Paper 1 – What happens when the seas rise? - living with climate change
Speaker to be confirmed
Paper 2 – How do we prevent the lights going out? - living in a low energy world
Hector Pearson, The National Grid
11.30-12.45 / Choice of workshops
Workshop A – Community engagement
Workshop B – Allocating and delivering sustainable housing sites
Dave Sykes, Harrogate Borough Council
Workshop C – Making sound planning decisions
Duncan Chadwick, David Lock Associates
Workshop D – Good design – what does it mean?
Rob Cowan, Urban Design Skills
14.15-15.30 / Choice of workshops A-D (repeated)
16.00-16.45 / Paper 3 – Delivering value for the rural economy
Cllr Andrew Wilby, South Northamptonshire Council
20.00-21.00 / Evening paper – Ancient excrement – an avenue to York’s heritage
Andrew Jones, York Archaeological Trust
SUNDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
09.30-12.30 / THE BIG DEBATE
ThisSchool believes that social housing should be provided by councils and market housing by developers
David Lock, David Lock Associates
Julie Cowans, Regeneration Consultant
Andrew Whitaker, Home Builders Federation
Robert Napier, HCA
13.30-18.00 / Choice of study tours
Sponsored by Southern Planning Practice
- Housing in York
- Green energy in Selby
- Doncaster
- Wakefield
Evening / Gala dinner
Reception sponsored by Yorkshire Water
Dinner sponsored by The Planning Inspectorate
MONDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
09.30-11.00 / Paper 4 – Delivering the infrastructure locally
Jack Hegarty, Chief Executive, Wychavon District Council
Paper 5 – Delivering the national infrastructure
Sir Michael Pitt, Chair, Infrastructure Planning Commission
Paper 6 – Delivering the infrastructure – role of the private sector
Peter Beaumont, Managing Director, Keyland Developments Ltd
11.30-12.45 / Choice of four workshops
Workshop E – Working together
Cllr Peter Wharf, Purbeck District Council
Workshop F – Planning and health
Workshop G – Enforcement – delivering the permission and enforcing the conditions
Vivien Green, Trevor Roberts Associates
Workshop H – Waste planning
Robert Asquith, Planning Director, New Earth Solutions
13.30-14.10 / Lunchtime discussion – Place shaping – the role of the backbench member
14.15-15.30 / Choice of workshops E-H (repeated)
16.00-16.45 / Closing address
Disparities in Society
Lord Richard Best OBE
20.15-21.15 / Question time with panel of experts

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