TCPA seminar on ‘what is the future now for regional planning and infrastructure?’ Friday 18th September
Regional and national planning faces turmoil and change. Some Regional Assemblies have now been abolished as Parliament establishes a new role for Regional Development Agencies supported by local authorities Leaders’ Boards. These will work together to devise any new Regional Strategies, combining both economic and spatial predecessor strategies. At the same time the Official Opposition in Parliament promises a new era of localism and the abolition of regional planning in general. Too many Local Development Documents, it is argued, have simply been delayed by regional processes.
National infrastructure too faces the same challenges. In Whitehall National Policy Statements on energy, ports and airports are urgently being prepared as the new Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) is rapidly set up to handle projects over a given size, while opposition parties talk of abolition of the IPC.
This TCPA member’s seminar, taking place on the morning of the Friday 18th September 2009, will look at what is the future now for regional planning and infrastructure? This CPD event will allow participants to explore key questions around the future of regional planning and national infrastructure delivery with leading figures from the worlds of government, politics and planning. Speakers include Bob Neill MP, Shadow Minister for Planning, Cllr David Parsons CBE, Leader, Leicestershire County Council, and Deputy Chair, Local Government Association, and Catriona Riddell, Director, Planning for the South East England Partnership Board.
The brochure which includes a booking form can be downloaded from the TCPA website at http://www.tcpa.org.uk/data/files/regional_brochure.pdf.
