The Politics of Planning
| Date & Time: | February 26, 2015 1:30 pm | Add to Calendar (.ics) |
| Venue: | Dentons UK and Middle East LLP |
The Politics of Planning is a conference organised jointly by The National Planning Forum and the Cambridge University Land Society. Its aim is to enable the property, planning, and development industries to engage with the policies of the main political parties ahead of the general election.
This is the progamme for the afternoon:
1.30 Registration
14.00 Welcome – Brian Waters, chairman NPF, LP&DF and CULS APEC Forum
14.05 Keynote: How planning and politics mix
Paul Finch, editorial director Architects’ Journal and Architectural Review and former
chairman of CABE to set the scene
14:25 Planning and the market
• Commercial and office development policy: Julian Barwick, director, Development Securities
PLC
• Land use, green belt and rural development policy: Sean Spiers, Chief Executive of the
Campaign to Protect Rural England and a former Member of the European Parliament
• Housing: Emma Cariaga, Residential Development Director at British Land
15:00 Discussion and Q&A
Liz Peace, recently Chief Executive of the British Property Federation and past chairman NPF:
Moderator
Panel: Emma Cariaga, Sean Spiers, Julian Barwick
15:30 TEA
16:00 Pitches ‘My most wanted manifesto commitment’
Finn Williams, Planning Officers’ Society-NOVUS: “Public Works – handing Councils the
powers to deliver”
Kate Henderson, Chief Executive of the Town & Country Planning Association: “The reinvention
of social town planning”
Vincent Goodstadt, Past President of the Royal Town Planning Institute:
Lee Mallett, editor City Planning, Westminster Planning, joint editor Planning in London:
“Restoring the vision thing – research by design”
Dan Lewis, Chief Executive of the Economic Policy Centre and Policy Adviser to the Institute of
Directors: “The incoming government should establish an independent ‘Infrastructure Value
Index’”
17:00 Review – discussion/ Q&A
Lee Mallet, moderator
Panel: Simon Marsh, Head of Planning Policy, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
(RSPB); Dan Lewis, Max Farrell, Farrells; Roy Pinnock, planning partner Dentons
17:30 Summation
Paul Finch
6.00 DRINKS, Networking sponsored by Development Securities, Dentons and CULS
