Back to Yorkshire Region

RTPI Yorkshire Pracice Seminars provide our members with low-cost  CPD events.  

Next Events

Regeneration of Scarborough's South Bay (pdf, 180kb)

Thursday 21 June, Scarborough

• Time: 4.30 - 7.30 pm
• Venue: Presentation and Seminar at the Town Hall in Scarborough, followed by walking tour of the South Bay
• Cost: £7.00

Scarborough Borough Council is currently looking to redevelop a key site in the heart of the town, which includes the Futurist Theatre on the seafront and extends up to the Town Hall in the main commercial centre. The presentation will focus on the opportunities and challenges in devising a development brief which fosters the maximum regeneration benefit for Scarborough and will be followed by a walking tour of the site. 

This event is sponsored by Scarborough Borough Council and is held in association with the RTPI Regeneration Network.

Come and join us at this early evening mid-summer event by the seaside!

 Places are strictly limited and booking is essential. To book a place please contact yorkshire@rtpi.org.uk

Transforming Halfax's Piece Hall (pdf, 238kb)

Wednesday 18 July, Halifax

• Time: 1.30 - 4.30 pm
• Venue: Presentation and Seminar at the Town Hall in Halifax, followed by walking tour of the Piece Hall
• Cost: £7.00

The Piece Hall is a unique Grade 1 listed Georgian masterpiece in the heart of Halifax. Built to provide a marketplace for Halifax’s hugely successful trade in cloth, it’s now home to shops, cafes and the Halifax Visitor Centre and Art gallery. Calderdale Council is to give the Piece Hall a new lease of life, supported by a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund. The £18.9m transformation project will see the Piece Hall turned into a popular visitor attraction boasting quality shops, cafes and restaurants, creative businesses and an events programme.

This seminar and site visit will provide an overview of the building’s architectural significance and explain the actions that the Council is taking to ensure its future.  

The event is sponsored by Calderdale Council and held in association with the RTPI Historic Environment Group.

Places are strictly limited and booking is essential. Please contact yorkshire@rtpi.org.uk to book a place.

Onshore Wind Seminar and Wind Farm Visit

Thursday 13 September, Beverley

• Time: 10.00am - 4.30pm
• Venue: Tickton Grange Hotel, Beverley (inc visit to Sancton Hill Wind Farm)
• Cost: FREE

RenewableUK and partners is running a series of FREE Onshore Wind Seminars across the UK. These events will be held exclusively for local authority planners, councillors and representatives from statutory agencies and local interest groups. These events are designed to inform participants about the key drivers and benefits of onshore wind development.  Participants have left these events with an increased knowledge of the range of considerations involved in the planning and development of wind energy projects and the drivers for renewable energy deployment. They have also come away with a greater awareness of the true nature of wind energy technology, and the facts associated with its development.

At lunchtime delegtaes will be taken to visit Sancton Hill Wind Farm. The site is owned by REG Energy. In September 2010 the East Riding of Yorkshire Council granted planning consent for our five turbine project outside the village of Sancton. Construction work began in November 2011 when Yorkshire firm Smith Brothers started to build the small on-site substation. Turbines are due to arrive on site in Spring 2012, with the first green electricity generated soon after. For further information on Sancton Hill Wind Farm, please visit their website here.

Booking and further information

2011 events

In 2011 we have provided a series of low-cost CPD based seminars and workshops for over 350 delegates on topics as diverse as Marine Planning, Community Engagement and Life and Times of a Planning Inspector!  Typically, these are early evening and/or half day events to complement the well established and respected RTPI Yorkshire Conference Series and provide good networking opportunities.

Recent events have included a Career Support Workshop in Leeds in October, and Community Engagement in Planning under Lcoalism in Leeds in November.

We held a event on Flooding and Water - Managing the Risk on 29 June in Huddersfield. Following on from Planning Policy Statement 25 (PPS25), the Environment Agency has provided updated Flood Risk Standing Advice (pdf). This seminar brought this advice, along with current practice, up to the minute and added a planning policy perspective, a focus on EIA, and the importance of FRA and environmental impact  in the planning process.

The RTPI held an event on Corporate Membership & the Assessment of Professional Competence earlier in the year.

Author:

Trish Cookson

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

21-May-12

Categories:

 

This article has been read 1170 times.