Wednesday 30 June

7.30 Registration and coffee with the exhibitors

9.00 New knowledge - New skills (choice of workshops)

• Workshop 7 - Wind energy and the planning process
• Workshop 8 - Engaging with the IPC
• Workshop 9 - Planning for Low Carbon: Understanding Technologies, the Rural to Urban Continuum, Policy Incentives and the Economic Development Effects
• Workshop 10 – Green Belts, countryside around towns: towards a greener future
• Workshop 11 - PINS future: The way we are working
• Workshop 12 - Planning for what communities want vs what they can have - who decides?

10.05 Plenary: Shaping our economic future - Planning for recovery

Speakers: Alex Plant, Chief Executive, Cambridgeshire Horizons
Kay Boycott, Director of Communications, Policy and Campaigns, Shelter
Matthew Farrow, Head of Energy, Transport & Planning, CBI

11.15 Coffee with the exhibitors

11.50 New knowledge - New skills (choice of workshops)

• Workshop 13 - Using the Planning System to Reduce Road Transport Emissions
• Workshop 14 - Planning and mediation - looking to the future
• Workshop 15 - Children and Communities - Making Spaces Playable
• Workshop 16 - Signposting local leadership for local infrastructure
• Workshop 17 - Transport management for the next decade
• Workshop 18 - Viability – do you know enough?

12.55 Lunch with the exhibitors

2.10 Special interest sessions:

• Meet the CLG Policy Team
  Steve Quartermain and CLG Directors, who will take questions from attendees
• International aspects of planning for climate change
  Paul Taylor, Chief of the Office of the Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
• Making the most of land in the 21st century:
  Foresight Land Use Futures Project and the leadership of place
  Professor John Goddard OBE, Emeritus Professor of Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University and member of the Lead Expert Group, Foresight Land Use Future Project

3.00 Coffee with the exhibitors

3.30 Plenary debate: Debating the future: Is planning the problem or the answer?
Chair: Kevin Murray, Kevin Murray Associates
Speakers: Dr Hugh Ellis, Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning Association
Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning
Paul Finch OBE, Chairman, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
Liz Peace, CEO of the British Property Federation

5.00 Grotton Revisited: Planning in Crisis?

Revelations by the authors:

Steve Ankers, David Kaiserman and Chris Shepley
Launched at the Planning Convention, “Grotton Revisited” is an entirely serious examination of the workings of the planning system in the almost entirely fictitious County of Grotton, recently ranked as “average with moderate prospects of remaining average” in the Comprehensive Area Assessment. Written by Steve Ankers, David Kaiserman and Chris Shepley (planners of vast experience and dogged optimism), “Grotton Revisited” is suitable for planners of all ages and anyone who wants to understand how the system really works.

5.30 Close of Convention by President.