Date
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Time
10.30 am-4.00 pm
Location
Millennium Point, Curzon St., Birmingham, B4 7XG
Organisers
Planners Network UK
The event itself
As part of its wider targeting of local government and public services the con-dem government’s attack on planning has begun to take shape. Whilst there are marked contradictions in the reform agenda, there are worryingly few voices publically arguing for planning. Following from a successful event in March in London, this meeting will consider the threat to planning from a range of different geographical perspectives, and how PNUK and others can best campaign for a more just planning system and society.
Cost: £10 to cover cost of lunch (they hope to make a small travel fund available to assist anyone who genuinely can’t afford to make it)
Programme
10.30-12.30 Session 1: perspectives from the south, the midlands and the Celtic fringe
Speakers: Peter Studdert (lately of South Cambridgeshire)
Geraint Ellis (Queen’s University Belfast)
Chris Crean (Friends of the Earth West Midlands)
12.30-13.15 Lunch
13.15-15.30 Session 2: Workshop on the agenda for campaigning
Topics: 1. How can we challenge the ‘evidence-base’ and influence of free-market economists to argue for a more just and balanced model of urban development?
2. What alliances can planning and planners form to make the case for alternative views of planning?
3. What instruments and tools can we use to achieve this?
15.30-16.00 Feedback and closing comments
16.00 Close
How do you attend this event
To book email either Tim Marshall (tmarshall@brookes.ac.uk) or Andy Inch (a.inch@sheffield.ac.uk)
