Monday 28 June

14:00-17:00

Study Tours

17:15-19:00

Launch of Grotton Revisited: Planning in Crisis! and opening drinks reception.

Followed by international dinner (by invitation only).†

Tuesday 29 June

From 07:30

Registration

09:00-09:50

Preparing for the future: choice of 3 surgeries:
• CLG Surgery,
• APC: an RTPI surgery,
• Shaping your future career in an uncertain world: an RTPI careers surgery

10:00-11:10

Plenary 1: Shaping the global future – Cities and Climate Change
Global Climate Change is a question of justice and a question about how much you are prepared to give up; it is not until budgets are questioned that people get creative

11:15-11:45

Coffee Break

11:50-13:00

Plenary 2: Shaping the Future - Planning nationally, Delivering locally
Bringing together national and local providers of infrastructure and housing with local delivery; finding out what they do and how they do it.

Confirmed speakers: Celia Carrington (Deputy Chief Executive, Swindon Borough Council), Trevor Beattie (Corporate Director, Strategy, Policy, Performance and Research, Homes and Communities Agency)

13:00-14:10

Lunch

14:15-15:15

New knowledge - New skills
Choice of sponsored workshops

15:20-15:45

Coffee Break

15:50-17:00

Plenary 3: Question Time - Shaping the United Kingdom’s future

Confirmed speakers: Steve Quartermain (Chief Planner, CLG), Jim McKinnon (Chief Planner, Scottish Executive), Edwin Poots MLA (Minister of the Environment, Northern Ireland Executive). Chair: Nick Cuff (CBRE)

17:05-17:50

Plenary 4: RTPI Shaping the Agenda - 5 big messages from the RTPI (Presidential address)
Ministerial speech plus Q and A

18:00-19:30

Sponsored Drinks Reception for delegates

†

Wednesday 30 June

From 07:30

Registration – GPN Breakfast Meeting – By invitation only

09:00-10:00

New knowledge - New skills
Choice of sponsored workshops

10:05-11:15

Plenary 5: Shaping economic recovery

Confirmed speakers: Alex Plant (Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire Horizons) and Kay Boycott (Director of Communications, Policy and Campaigns at Shelter), Matthew Farrow (Head of Energy and Environment, CBI)

11:15-11:45

Coffee Break

11:50-13:00

New knowledge - New skills
choice of sponsored workshops

13:00-14:10

Lunch

14:15-15:00

Shaping planning’s future – the RTPI in action.
Feedback on the 7 Climate Change Commitments plus Young Planners' contribution and exhibition of good practice.

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

Plenary Debate: Debating the future: Is planning the problem or the answer?†

Chaired by Kevin Murray

Confirmed speakers: Professor Sir Peter Hall (Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, UCL - University College London), Dr Hugh Ellis (Chief Planner of TCPA's Climate Change Unit, Planning Advisor to Friends of the Earth).