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15th Annual Planning Law Conference

Date:
08 December 2008
Venue:
Royal College of Surgeons, London
CPD:
5.0

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15th Annual Planning Law Conference

In association with Landmark Chambers

This one day conference will provide a fully comprehensive legal update by David Elvin QC, as well as provide current information on planning issues.

Ministers have put on record their desire to see a planning system that can adapt to the challenges of the 21st Century.

This year has seen tremendous strides in the reform process to help deliver such a system. This can be seen not only through the Planning Bill, but also in the key role that planning - particularly the Local Development Framework, now plays in local authority sustainable community strategies

CHAIR FOR THE DAY
Christopher Lockhart-Mummery QC, Landmark Chambers

KEYNOTE SPEECH
Richard McCarthy, Director General of Housing & Planning at the Department of Communities and Local Government. Richard McCarthy has been a director general since October 2003. Prior to joining Communities and Local Government, Richard was the chief executive of the Peabody Trust, a major housing association and regeneration agency that operates across London.

Case Law Update
David Elvin QC, Landmark Chambers

Conducting Planning Appeals
Nathalie Lieven QC, Landmark Chambers

Community Infrastructure Levy
Stephen Ashworth, Denton Wilde Sapte

PPS 6 – The future of Town Centres (Retail Planning – current issues)
Review the latest position reached in the Government’s re-write of PPS6 and its planning policy response to the Competition Commission, together with an overview of the manner in which successive ministers and the courts have considered retail planning issues in the lead up to these reforms.
Christopher Katkowski QC, Landmark Chambers

Planning Act 2008

  • Overview of the recent planning reforms: what are the aims?
  • Latest position in respect of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects
  • Other changes in the Planning Bill/Act
  • Other changes in respect of planning applications and appeals
  • What next?

Stephen Morgan, Landmark Chambers
Sasha White, Landmark Chambers

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