Planning Convention 2010

The 2010 Planning Convention: Planning: Shaping the Future

Tuesday 29 June

7.30 Registration and coffee with the exhibitors

9.00 Preparing for the future: choice of 3 surgeries:

  • CLG Surgery
  • APC: an RTPI surgery
  • Shaping your future career in an uncertain world: an RTPI careers surgery

10.00 Plenary: Shaping the global future – Cities and climate change
Global Climate Change is a question about justice – how much are you prepared to give up; it is not until budgets are questioned that people get creative
Speakers: Alexis Roberts, Urban Policy Specialist, OECD Urban Development Programme
Bruce Knight, President, American Planning Association (APA)
Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs

11.15 Coffee with the exhibitors

11.50 Plenary: Shaping the Future - Planning nationally, delivering locally
Bringing together national and local providers of infrastructure and housing with local delivery – finding out what they do and how they do it.
Chair: Sir Michael Pitt, Chair, Infrastructure Planning Commission
Speakers: Trevor Beattie, Corporate Director, Strategy, Policy, Performance and Research, Homes and Communities Agency
Celia Carrington, Deputy Chief Executive and Group Director, Environment and Regeneration and Community, Swindon Borough Council

1.00 Lunch with the exhibitors

2.15 New knowledge - New skills (choice of workshops)

3.20 Coffee with the exhibitors

3.50 Plenary: Question Time - Shaping the United Kingdom’s future
Chair: Nick Cuff, Chairman of Regeneration, London Borough of Wandsworth
Speakers: Jim MacKinnon, Chief Planner, Scottish Executive
Steve Quartermain, Chief Planner, Communities and Local Government
Edwin Poots MLA, Minister of the Environment, Northern Ireland Executive
Rosemary Thomas, Deputy Director, Welsh Assembly Government
If you have a question you would like answered in this session please submit it here

5.05 Plenary: RTPI Shaping the Agenda
Speaker: Ann Skippers, RTPI President

5.25 Ministerial speech plus Q and A

6.00 Drinks reception


Submit a question for the plenary session: 'Shaping the United Kingdom’s future'.

 


 


 


 


 


 



 

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