Local Transport
in a
Global Context
Rising fuel prices, the credit crunch and climate change…
What can transport and land use planners do to make a difference?
In 2008 TRICS in partnership with RTPI celebrated 20 years of its Transport and Development Conference.
During the 2 day event we heard from MPs on how national transport and planning policy is adapting to global changes and how this impacts at the local level. Speakers from DfT and DCLG will present on current thinking, public attitudes and the effects of climate change and rising fuel prices on transport and development. Private sector developers and urban designers provided their views on the housing market and the role of transport.
A series of workshops provided opportunities to discuss specific issues such as ‘consultation for everyone’, ‘residential parking’ and ‘legal perspectives on public inquiries’. And finally we looked at a series of award winning urban areas and developments from the UK and Ireland that successfully embraced innovative transport and development solutions. |
Speakers
Alan Wenban-Smith
Alan Wenban-Smith held senior local authority planning posts in the North East and Birmingham, including city and regional lead responsibilities for planning, transport and economic development policy. As a consultant since 1996 he has focused on linking housing and transport issues to other aspects of urban and regional policy and governance. He is currently a member of the Policy & Practice Committee of the RTPI and Visiting Professor of Planning at Birmingham City University. >>>
Bob White
Bob White is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Highways and Transportation. Following an early grounding in highway design and construction, he has gained over 24 years experience in the field of development planning with Kent County Council (twice), Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council and Canterbury City Council. Among his responsibilities as Transport & Development Business Manager, he is the ‘placemaking champion’ for Kent Highway Services, working as part of the Kent Design Initiative to help deliver high quality sustainable developments in the county. He is also the lead officer for interpreting current guidance on residential parking, having gathered a considerable amount of evidence on the subject and having been involved in workshops promoting English Partnerships Car Parking: What Works Where’. >>>
Bronwen Fisher
Bronwen Fisher is Smarter Travel team leader at Surrey County Council, where her responsibilities include auditing the implementation of development related travel plans, Surrey's staff travel plan and enabling and promoting car sharing and car clubs in Surrey. With a Geography degree background, she has spent over six years in the sector of environmental behaviour change. She has previously managed projects for sustainability education and recycling business waste with the the innovative charity 'BioRegional' based at the BedZED in South London.
Bronwen is currently completing a part-time MSc with the Open University on Environmental Decision Making, with a research focus on policies to encourage the switch to lower carbon cars. >>>
Charlotte Dixon
Charlotte Dixon is responsible within the Department for Transport for strategy on regional, sub-regional and local transport, including its funding. This includes advice on the development of city regions and their governance. Her division also leads within DfT on regional policy, including Regional Funding Allocations, and on Local Transport Plans, Local Area Agreements and the Local Transport settlement.
Prior to her current post Charlotte spent six years in the South East region, initially with the Government Office and latterly with the Regional Development Agency. At SEEDA she was Director for Sustainability, working on the development of sub-regional partnerships and on social inclusion, rural and environmental matters.
Most of Charlotte's earlier posts have been in the central Department of Transport, though a varied career has included posts at DVLC, Swansea, the Highways Agency and the North West Regional Office. >>>
Colin Haylock
An Architect-Planner who in 25 years with Newcastle City Council, laterly as Assistant Head of Planning, played a central role in major developments in the City including Byker and the more recent, award winning East Quayside and Grainger Town Projects. Since 1999 he has been leading the development of the Urban Design, Masterplanning, Planning and Conservation dimensions of Ryder. This large design led multi-disciplinary practice is based in Newcastle and London and works across a wide range of sectors with particular specialisms in major commercial, mixed use, education and healthcare projects. In 2000 he was appointed by CABE as one of its original regional representatives - a role in which he continues to work. He is also a founder member of CABE's Advisory Planning Forum - recently extended and formalised as its Planning Advisory Committee. As a longstanding member of the RTPI's Council and General Assembly he has led many initiatives for the Institute, including the development of its Urban Design Network. He is a member of the Institute's Executive Board and is the current Chair of UDAL - the national multi-professional Urban Design Alliance. >>>
Glenn Lyons
Professor Glenn Lyons is the Director of the Centre for Transport & Society. Having originally conducted research in the areas of artificial neural networks, driver behaviour and urban traffic management, the prevailing theme of his research today is transport and society. This encompasses the three-way interactions between telecommunications, personal travel and social participation. He has a longstanding expertise concerning traveller information services and the role of the Internet and is currently an external advisor to the Department for Transport's Transport Direct Programme. Glenn is enthusiastic about developing understanding in the areas of travel behaviour and travel demand management. >>>
Ian Smith
Head of Influencing Travel Behaviour, Highways Agency.
Ian's career background started out as an Organisation and Methods officer working for Granada. During his many years there he moved on to manage major business change programmes.
Since joining the Highways Agency in 2003, Ian has set up and developed its Influencing Travel Behaviour programme. In this time, the Agency has implemented 20 voluntary area travel plans and secured future delivery of many more developer-funded travel plans through the Planning system. Ian has also responded to the "Greening the Government Estate" initiative and implemented internal office travel plans covering staff travel to work and business travel. These are designed to meet Government targets to reduce CO2 emissions.
Throughout this time Ian has maintained a focus on outcome-based evaluation of these schemes designed to provide evidence to inform the business case for the future use of travel plans and other demand management techniques by the Highways Agency. >>>
Guy Houston
Guy joined Transport Scotland in May 2006 as Director of Finance and Corporate Services overseeing an annual budget of £2bn with responsibilities for corporate and business planning; financial management including internal audit; performance monitoring of the agency; management of the £200m national concessionary fares scheme; and support services such as IT, human resources, health & Safety, travel planning and press/media & stakeholder communications. >>>
Jacqui Wilkinson
Jacqui joined the Department for Transport in November 2003. She launched the National Business Travel Network in February 2007, which is now part of the Government's ACT on CO2 campaign; has been overseeing the Sustainable Travel Towns initiative which is due to be completed in 2009; and was project manager for the 'Travelling to School' initiative. She also set up the sustainable transport policy group for the British Irish Council which is aimed at promoting sustainable travel across the British Isles. Before joining the DfT, she worked in the Highways Agency (HA) managing major innovation programmes including devising and implementing the HA’s Influencing Travel Behaviour project and managed the research resulting in establishment of the Traffic Officer Service on the motorway network. >>>
Janet O'Neill
Janet is a chartered town planning consultant with her own practice, based in York. She has 10 years local government experience in Cardiff, Edinburgh and South Yorkshire, and has been in the private sector for more than 20 years. Her practice provides planning advice and assistance to a broad range of clients, mainly based on the North East of England. She and her staff are involved in an array of planning and development issues, giving advice on how the development plan system works and how clients' objectives can be achieved within that framework. Company activities encompass planning issues from education, historic buildings and employment uses to housing, including historic context and urban design issues. Janet is President of the Executive Board of the Royal Town Planning Institute and also Senior Vice President of the Institute. In addition, she is External Examiner to Westminster University School of Planning. >>>
Jim Redwood
Jim is an independent planning consultant, based in Hove. He has 32 years local government experience, most recently as Director of Environment and Housing at Crawley Borough Council. Previous posts include Director of Planning at Lewes District Council. Jim was also the founding planning adviser to the Sussex Downs Conservation Board – now the South Downs Joint Committee. Since he left local government earlier this year he has been engaged by a variety of clients, and his roles have included independent planning adviser to Arun Distric Council’s Select Committee on the Ford Eco Town proposals. He has recently been appointed as Planning Director to the Shoreham Harbour Joint Area Action Plan, working to Adur District Council, Brighton & Hove City Council and West Sussex County Council. He has also been engaged in town centre redevelopment schemes for Eastbourne Borough Council and Crawley Borough Council. >>>
Dr Kit Mitchell
Dr Mitchell retired from Transport Research Laboratory in 1994. In 1970 he had moved from the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, to join the team at the then Road Research Laboratory studying the Cabtrack and Minitram automatic public transport systems. He then managed research on dial-a-bus in Britain and worked with the operators to implement services in Harlow and the West Midlands.
He became Head of Access and Mobility Division in 1975, responsible for research on the effects of transport policies on different groups of people. From 1982 he ran the Environment Divison. From the early 1980s he also ran TRRL’s research on transport for disabled people and led the team that produced the DPTAC specification for local buses. After retirement from TRL, he worked for Transport Canada for a year as a Visiting Expert, advising on the implications of ITS for elderly and disabled travellers.
He has been a member of the Transport Policy Board of the Institution of Highways and Transportation for many years, and was a member of Council until 2006. He wrote IHT guidelines "Planning for Public Transport in Development" and "Moving Freight - balancing economy and environment". More recently, he provided the database of transport statistics for the Institute of Advanced Motorists 'Motoring Facts'.
He is co-chair of the US TRB Committee on Accessible Transportation and Mobility and a member of the Committee on the Safe Mobility of Older Persons. >>>
Lee Smith
Lee Smith (Principal Research Manager, Department for Transport) Lee is based in the Department for Transport's Social Research and Evaluation division where he is responsible for applying social research knowledge and expertise to cross cutting DfT policy issues. Over the past 2 years Lee has played a key role in leading the Department's research programme to improve its evidence base on public attitudes towards climate change and transport behaviour to inform policy and communications development. This work has included commissioning a major 18 month study exploring public understanding and engagement with climate change. This research will enhance the Department's understanding of the motivators and barriers to personal travel behaviour change. Prior to his current role, Lee spent 8 years in the private sector managing and conducting predominantly transport focused social research. >>>
Lilli Matson
As TfL’s Head of Integrated Area Programmes, I lead the organisation’s smarter travel towns work, in addition to developing pilot projects to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of smarter travel measures and developing TfL’s TDM strategy for the Olympics. Previously, as TfL’s Policy Development Manager, I helped lead the production of Transport 2025, the twenty-year transport strategy for London.
I was a member of the UK Government’s Commission for Integrated Transport 1998-2004 and ran my own consultancy for five years, leading major projects for a range of clients including the Department for Transport, DCLG, Government agencies, local authorities and the voluntary sector.
Prior to working as a consultant, I led UK countryside group Campaign for the Protection of Rural England’s transport work for seven years, influencing national transport policy during this time. >>>
Lynn Devereux
Lynn is Senior Technical Director and Head of Policy & Research within WSP’s Development and Transportation business. She has more than 25 years research and consultancy experience, including 15 years as a Director of Cambridge consultancy ME&P, which pioneered the commercial application of integrated land use – transport modelling and was incorporated into WSP in 2001.
In addition to her particular interests in R&D and strategic land use-transport planning, Lynn is interested in the use of GIS as a means of making complex spatial models more accessible to practitioners. She was Chair of WSP Integrated Transport Technical Board for two years and is currently leading WSP’s input to DfT’s new Framework for Transport Related Technical Advice and Research where WSP Group are responsible for the Economics, Statistics and Transport Modelling workstream.
Michael Gallimore
Michael Gallimore is a Partner and Head of Planning at the international law firm, Lovells. He advises on the planning and environmental aspects of major development and infrastructure projects, including mixed used developments and regeneration schemes, new housing settlements, retail and leisure proposals and waste management schemes. Current projects include advising Argent (King's Cross) Ltd on the planning aspects of King's Cross Central, Ballymore Properties on the redevelopment of Minoco Wharf and British Land on the North East Quarter at Regent's Place. >>>
Norman Baker MP
Norman Baker has been MP for Lewes since 1997 and has established a reputation as one of the most dogged and persistent parliamentary interrogators the modern House of Commons has known. Born in Aberdeen, Norman moved to Hornchurch in Essex in 1968 and was educated at the Royal Liberty School, Gidea Park, before taking a degree in German (and being elected three times to run one of the college bars) at Royal Holloway College, University of London. In December 2007 Norman was promoted and appointed Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Transport by the new party leader, Nick Clegg. This has allowed Norman to continue with his environmental interests by campaigning for batter and greener public transport. >>>
Paul Dickinson
Paul Dickinson co-founded the Carbon Disclosure Project in 2000 with the ambitious aim of engaging the investment and corporate communities to work together to tackle the issues of climate change. Leading a small team, Paul Dickinson has built up a global collaboration of over 385 of the world’s largest institutional investors, holding over $57 trillion in assets under management.
Paul Dickinson is also founder and Chair of EyeNetwork – a video conferencing system which offers corporations the ability to meet clients globally, from the comfort of their own office. He has conducted extensive research into how increased use of video-conferencing can be incorporated into business strategy to make a considerable reduction in corporate emissions generated through travel.
Prior to founding CDP, Paul Dickinson founded and built a corporate communications company, Rufus Leonard, into a multi-million turnover company, working with clients such as Shell and the Prudential.
Paul is also an established author and expert on business development, corporate branding and the role the corporate community can play in bringing about positive change. >>>
Paul Emmerson
BA (Hons), MSc, Postgraduate Certificate of Education, MIHT
Principal Transportation Analyst Traffic and Transport
Paul has worked within in the transport modelling field at TRL since 1978. His work has included many aspects of modelling related to traffic appraisal, including traffic generation, distribution, assignment and evaluation. He has been providing guidance to UK Department of Transport on various aspects of the modelling and appraisal process including assessing the impact of road schemes on travel behaviour, and providing advice on modelling variable demand responses to highway schemes, and for the Highways Agency providing advice on the impact of such techniques on development control. Recently he has been working with the Highways Agency to develop an economic evaluation tool for Travel Plans.
Paul’s specialisations include transport planning methodology, traffic forecasting and land-use/transport interaction. Paul has been responsible for numerous publications, both as sole and joint author and is helping to develop a Transport Modelling Module for the MSc course at the University of Surrey. >>>
Penny Gane
Penny Gane is Corporate Director of Chooseday, a Bristol based climate change initiative which encourages people to choose more sustainable modes of travel. She is also Director of the GEM consultancy, working with the public and private sectors on a range of issues including sustainable development and equalities and human rights. Penny has previously worked in local government as a District Director and manager of a local strategic partnership. She set up the CREATE Centre for Sustainable Development and the Bristol Ecohome. She also established the first comprehensive waste oil recycling scheme in the country with Texaco UK. She led Bristol’s Local Agenda 21 and has been active in a number of high profile campaigns. Penny has also worked as Director of Public/Private Partnerships with the Tribal Group. Before entering local government she was a teacher of English, Drama and Media. >>>
Riccardo Bobisse
Riccardo is a Principal Urban Designer with a multidisciplinary background in urban regeneration and economics with a clear understanding of both private and public sectors issues. His expertise focuses on the public realm and access-related issues, and the role of design in social, economic and environmental regeneration. His interests include diversity and people representation in public spaces and he has recently completed a MA programme in Urban Design at Westminster University, with a dissertation on the role of lighting in Urban Design. Riccardo is bringing his knowledge of and passion for Urban Design to a number of projects where transport matters entangle with issues of public space quality, requiring a holistic and interdisciplinary approach. Recent work includes masterplanning, studies of town centres, public spaces and movement corridors where JMP’s clients are looking for innovative traffic solutions, but also demand a contribution towards their public realm strategy. >>>
Robbie Owen
Robbie is a solicitor and a parliamentary agent. Since 1991 he has been a partner at law firm Bircham Dyson Bell LLP, where he specialises in the promotion of transport and other major infrastructure projects. Together with his colleagues he has been involved in the planning consents process (e.g. Hybrid Bills, Private Bills, Transport and Works Act Orders, Harbour Orders and planning permissions) for most contemporary rail, urban transport, port & harbour, bridge and tunnel projects in the UK.
He acts, amongst others, for Docklands Light Railway Limited, Transport for London, DP World, Merseytravel, Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, the Environment Agency and English Welsh & Scottish Railway Limited.
Since early 2007 Robbie has been a member of the Planning Sounding Board, set up by the Cabinet Office and now run by DCLG to give advice and views in relation to the May 2007 planning white paper and subsequent Planning Bill. >>>
Rynd Smith
Rynd trained in law at the London School of Economics and in planning at the University of Sheffield and Universite Lumiere de Lyon 2, France. In the UK he has held policy and plan review roles for the voluntary sector and has worked for local government in policy, regeneration, urban design and major projects roles. In Australia he has worked for a State government implementing planning system reforms and for 7 years as a Planning Inspector Manager, specialising in practice development, local development frameworks and the impact assessment of regional/national infrastructure. He has chaired public inquiries into motorway, power, renewables, new town, leisure, port and harbour and dredging developments. This work exposed him to the meeting point between major project development and community involvement processes, with many diverse communities. He is currently the Director of Policy & Communications for the Royal Town Planning Institute, where he is responsible for practice development, including the provision of advice to planners about their work with Gypsy and Traveller communities. Rynd is a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, the Planning Institute of Australia and the Victorian Planning and Environmental Law Association. >>>
Simon Ricketts
Simon Ricketts is a Partner in the Planning and Environment Group at SJ Berwin & Co. He has a wide planning, compulsory purchase and local government law practice, with particular experience in planning inquiries and the negotiation of planning and infrastructure agreements. He is a former barrister. >>>
Stephen Ashworth
Stephen Ashworth is a Partner in the Denton Wilde Sapte Planning and Public Law Team. He specialises in regeneration and public and private partnership projects advising both the public and private sectors. He is presently advising Grosvenor Henderson on their major redevelopment proposals in Liverpool City Centre; Westfield Shoppingtowns Ltd in connection with the redevelopment of the Broadmarsh Centre in Nottingham; Sainsbury's on over 20 retail proposals and Marks & Spencers on schemes in Leeds and Norwich. He is advising the Highways Agency and Portsmouth City Council on transport projects and has acted in the past for bodies such as the Association of Town Centre Management. He also specialises in Business Improvement Districts and is the proposed Chair of the Circle Initiative, an SRB funded body promoting (and part funding) five voluntary BIDs in Central London. >>>
Stephen Paul Hardy
I.Eng FIHIE MRTPI MICE MIHT
16 years extensive experience as a Highway Development Control Team Leader with City, Shire County and Unitary Borough Councils together with experience as a Regional Engineer for Bryant Homes preceded his 6 years working for Dorset County Council as a Principal Planner: Transport Planning, Urban Design & Development Liaison.
The foundation for those roles was his previous 15 years experience gained working on a wide range of District Council capital works projects.
During the past 8 years he has actively participated in national level projects informing the way in which highway design impacts on urban design.
Documents that he has been directly involved with include “Paving the Way”, “Better Streets, Better Places” Scottish Executive Planning Advice Note:
PAN 76 “new residential streets” and “Manual for Streets”.
His involvement with transportation and urban design related topics at a national level is ongoing.
At a local level he had a significant input into the acclaimed Dorset AONB publication “Reclaiming Our Rural Highways – A scoping report of issues affecting the character of roads and streets in rural Dorset” (2005).
He has also had papers published on the subjects of “natural calming” and initiatives that translate the lessons learnt from the sympathetic inclusion of highways in new, high quality, urban form into de-urbanising rural roads making them sympathetic to the local distinctiveness of the landscape in which they sit...
He has delivered a substantial number of presentations for IHIE, ICE, RTPI and RICS to national and regional conferences.
In addition to a longstanding involvement with IHIE’s Highway Development Control Group he is currently a Steering Group member of RTPI’s Urban Design Network and also a member of the RTPI’s Transport Planning, and Development Planning Networks.
His passionate drive to bring different professions together in the creation of high quality development coupled with his championing holistic approaches in highway engineering that are appropriate to local context and character led him to be awarded IHIE’s 2007 Award of Merit for outstanding service to the Institute. >>>
Steve Norris
Steve Norris was a Member of Parliament for 14 years and Minister for Transport in London from 1992-96. He was the Conservative Candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 and 2004. He is now on the Boards of Transport for London and the London Development Agency. Steve is a Patron of the Campaign for Better Transport and of Sustrans, the national cycling charity. He is President of ITS UK, the national transport telematics forum. He is a Companion of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and of the Institution of Highways and Transportation. >>>
Presentations
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Transport and Land Use Policy I |
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Local and Regional Transport Policy |
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Charlotte Dixon - Divisional Manager Regional & Local Transport Policy, Department for Transport |
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National Planning Policy |
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Alan Wenban-Smith - Professor of Planning, Birmingham City University |
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Views on Transport and Land Use in the UK |
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Norman Baker - Shadow Secretary of State - Transport, Liberal Democrats |
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Climate Change: A Global Problem
The Global Context – How Does What Is Happening Globally Affect Us Locally? |
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Public Attitudes, Climate Change and Transport Policy |
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Lee Smith - Principal Research Manager, Department for Transport |
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Business Attitudes, Climate Change and Economy |
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Paul Dickinson - CEO, Carbon Disclosure Project |
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How the Fuel Price Rises Affect Transport and Development |
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Kit Mitchell - Transport Policy Board, Institution of Highways & Transportation |
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Travel Plans - Do They Deliver? |
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Using the Standardised Assessment Methodology |
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Bronwen Fisher - Smarter Travel Manager, Surrey County Council |
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Transport Scotland’s Travel Plan - Links to Climate Change |
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Guy Houston - Director of Finance & Corporate Services, Transport Scotland |
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Travel Plans - Realising the Potential |
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Ian Smith - Head of Influencing Travel Behavior, Highways Agency |
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Paul Emmerson - Head of Transport Modelling, Transport Research Laboratory |
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Workshops: Delivering Local Transport |
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Implementing Residential Car Parking Standards in New Developments
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Stephen Hardy - Principal Planner Transport, Dorset County Council |
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Bob White - Transport & Development Business Manager, Kent Highway Services |
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Public Inquiries from a Legal Perspective |
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Michael Gallimore - Head of Planning, Lovells LLP |
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Simon Ricketts - Head of Planning & Environment Group, SJ Berwin |
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Stephen Ashworth - Head of Planning, DentonWildeSapte |
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Consultation and Engagement - How Do We Reach Everyone? |
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Penny Gane - Director, Green GEM |
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Study Tour of Access Arrangements to Wembley Stadium |
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Phil Rankmore - Head of Major Projects, London Borough of Brent |
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Transport & Development Policy |
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Lynn Devereux - Senior Technical Director, WSP Group |
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Transport and Land Use Policy II |
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Transport and Land Use Policy in London |
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Steven Norris - Board Member, TFL and London Development Agency |
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The Planning Bill & Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects: An introduction & legal overview |
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Robbie Owen - Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell LLP |
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Policy and Practice Post the Planning Bill |
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Rynd Smith - Director, Policy & Communications, Royal Town Planning Institute |
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Strategic Developments & Transport |
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Council’s Perspective |
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Jim Redwood - Planning Consultant & Director, JR Planning Ltd |
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Developer’s Perspective - Strategic Developments & Ecotowns |
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The Role of Urban Design in Local Transport Solutions |
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The Urban Design Influence on Journey Making |
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Colin Haylock - Urban Design Director, Ryder |
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Stephen Hardy - Principal Planner, Transport, Dorset County Council |
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Nocturnal Urban Design & Movement |
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Riccardo Bobisse - Principal Urban Designer, JMP Consultants Limited |
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The Wrap Up - Delivering Local Transport in a Global Context |
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Sustainable Towns |
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Jacqui Wilkinson - Sustainable Travel Initiatives, Department for Transport |
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Smarter Travel in London |
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Lilli Matson - Head of Integrated Area Programmes, Transport for London |
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Adamstown |
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Paul Hogan - Senior Planner ,South Dublin County Council |
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