A successful Young Planners event took place on the 29 June at the Belgian Monk in Norwich. Fresh from his visit to North Norfolk earlier in the afternoon, Richard Summers met with YPs to discuss their perspective on planning and issues affecting them in the current financial and political climate. Discussions were helped along by the wide range of Belgian beer on offer, some of which was quite potent indeed! Mussels with chips and mayonnaise were also a popular food choice. The evening concluded with a final pint or two in Bedfords Bar and it was nice to see a good turnout of YPs with a number of new faces. My thanks to Richard for coming along to meet with us and also Phil Godwin for performing chauffeur duties.

The next event, which is currently being finalised with the RTPI at the time of preparing this article is an APC event, which is proposed for early September, ahead of the final APC deadline of the year at the end of that month. This is an interesting area at the moment as Judy Waugh has replaced Tracey Lloyd as Head of Membership and Careers at the RTPI and has some thoughts on refining the APC process. It is very much a case of watch this space and it may be that this will inform some of the discussions at the upcoming event.

There should also be a further CPD event in the Autumn and the traditional (or should that be not so traditional) Xmas Curry will take place at some point in December.

I would also like to take this opportunity to once again plug the 2011 Young Planners Conference in Birmingham taking place on the 21^st and 22^nd October and also the Young Planners Network at http://www.rtpi.org.uk/young_planners_network/. There are also various other networks that you may wish to sign up to subject to your own interests and specialisms. Finally the Young Planners Facebook page continues to go from strength to strength and is well worth a look for updates on events and other discussions.

As ever, if you have any particular issues you would like to raise or ideas for events, please contact me at graham.bloomfield@bidwells.co.uk

Graham Bloomfield

Author:

Tina Jessup

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

11-Oct-11

Categories:

Nations & Regions 

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