East Midlands low cost CPD programme for PLANNERS 2011/12

The Baptist Church, Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray, LE13 0FA

‘SPECIALISMS IN PLANNING’

Thursday–23rdFebruary 2012

Chair: Adrian Kirkham,Planning Manager,North East Derbyshire District Council

09:30 – 10:00 /
Registration and refreshments
10:00 – 10:10 / Welcome and Introduction – Adrian Kirkham
10:10 – 10:35 / Unstable Land and the Planning Process–Mark Harrison,Planning Liaison Manager, The Coal Authority
10:35 – 11:00 / Geotechnical Solutions to Unstable Ground – Leigh Sharpe, Licensing and Permissions Manager, The Coal Authority
Questions will be taken at the end of each presentation
11:00 – 11:25 / Refreshment Break
11:25 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30 / Archaeology in the planning process - Steve Baker, Development Control Archaeologist, Derbyshire County Council
Sports and Recreation – Playing the Field Steve Beard, Planning Manager, Sport England
Questions will be taken at the end of each presentation
12:30– 13:15 / Lunch Break(lunch is provided)
13:15 – 13:45 / Art (Percent for Art) – Mark Shewring, Senior Planner + Percent for Art Programme Co-ordinator, Chesterfield Borough Council
13:45 – 14:15 / Public Realm – Its contribution to regeneration - Yunus Ahmed, DevelopmentTeam Manager Sheffield City CouncilBryan Harrison, Sheffield City region
Questions will be taken at the end of each presentation
14:15–14:30 / Comfort Break
14:30 – 15:00 / Ecology–Trevor Taylor,Wildlife Sites Officer (Planning), Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
15:00 - 15:30 / The Habitat Regulations – Neil Davidson, Director, Lepus Consulting
Questions will be taken at the end of each presentation
15:30 – 15:45 / Close –Adrian Kirkham

CPD

Each seminar of the East Midlands Programme will recognise the completion of 5 hours CPD. Certificates will be distributed at the end of the seminar.

Presentations

In the interest of considering the environment, the presentations on the day will not be printed in hard copy, however, where permission has been granted, they will be downloadable after the seminar from:

FOR YOUR INFORMATION - THE 2012/13 Programme

2012/13 Seminar Topics / Date / Lead CPO Group
Brave new world?
(understanding the new planning system) / 26th April 2012 / Lincolnshire
Development – stop it or start it?
(planning law & enforcement) / 28thJune 2012 / Nottinghamshire
From the outside looking in
(perception of planning by different stakeholders) / 6th September 2012 / Leicestershire
Money makes the world go round
(funding for development) / 16th October 2012** / Regional
Designing the future / 22nd November 2012 / Derbyshire
Water, water everywhere…
(issues relating to the water environment) / 28thFebruary 2013 / Northamptonshire

**The ‘Money makes the world go round’ seminar is the only one to be held on a Tuesday, the remaining 5 will be on a Thursday.

All the seminars will be held in the BaptistChurch, Melton Mowbray, Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 0FA

To help make the region greener, wherever possible, please ‘car share’ when travelling to the seminars.