Has obtaining Planning Consent become quicker and more predictable than it was previously?
Join us for the next Michelmores’ Planning Primer seminar.
Our experienced Planning and Environmental speakers will cover the following:
- The Government has brought in a wide range of planning reforms, many of which should be of significant assistance to the development industry (residential, commercial and energy developers). These include:
- what the Government has altered already in the NPPF (and PPG) and what else is proposed in the proposed updates, in the near future;
- the changes to the planning and related environmental systems brought in under the Planning and Infrastructure Act; and
- the BNG reforms (hopefully the details of the reforms will have been finalised by the date of this event)
- How consents/refusals and appeal decisions are already changing as a result of the above reforms and how they are expected to change in the future.
All of our external speakers have invaluable experience of Appeals and Court challenges to decisions. They are all advising industry players on strategic and infrastructure development. They are exceptionally well placed to analyse the effects of changes already seen in different types of development and to comment on the imminent changes.
The seminar will end with a panel discussion between our three keynote speakers, which will be hosted by Julie Sharpe, partner in the Strategic Land and development team at Michelmores. There will be a chance for delegates to raise questions for the panel members’ response.
Our keynote speakers
Helen Hutton, Partner in Planning and Environmental Law, Michelmores. Helen is an experienced planning and environmental solicitor, who, alongside her work in strategic land development, other development planning and energy schemes, is heavily involved in Natural Capital planning work.
Lord Charles Banner KC, leading Planning and Environmental silk at Keating Chambers, is ranked top or near the top of the various legal directories. Appointed to the House of Lords in 2024 as a working peer. Lord Banner is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups for Housing, Custom & Self-Build Housebuilding, and the Private Rental Sector, as well as maintaining a busy development industry caseload, appearing regularly in Court, including in the Supreme Court, and as the advocate in Appeals.
Lord Banner KC was actively involved in the debates in the House of Lords over the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. He will share his views on what was then enacted and provide valuable insight into what is happening to the proposals he had put forward, which were not enacted.
Tim Goodwin, Director of Bennu Environmental and a leading Ecologist in the UK. His strategic advice and ecological experience at Planning Inquiries is second to none and he remains the preferred expert witness for the Planning Bar, in both England and Northern Ireland. His evidence has been the subject of Legal Challenge both in the High Court and Court of Appeal and as he would say, luckily it has never been found wanting. He remains at the forefront of the existing and next round of natural capital reforms.
Networking:
As well as the chance to network before the seminar starts, attendees are invited to stay on afterwards for drinks and canapés, to discuss the issues covered with our keynote speakers and fellow delegates.
Who should attend:
This event will be of interest to planners, developers, housebuilders, local councils, land agents, property consultants, other industry professionals and those involved in Natural Capital.
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Timings:
15.30 – Arrival for refreshments and networking
16:00 – Seminar starts
18:00 – Networking with drinks and canapés
19:00 – Event close
