RTPI Yorkshire
RTPI Yorkshire promotes planning as a profession and builds links with other built environment professions and organisations throughout the Yorkshire. We offer members a programme of affordable seminars and events to assist with their continuing professional development requirements, and also publish a regular newsletter for members.
More than 1,450 planners from central, regional and local government, private consultancies, the education sector and other organisations are members of RTPI Yorkshire. We welcome the views and opinions of all our members, and we are always looking for volunteers to help with running our programmes.
For more information on how to get involved
in RTPI Yorkshire, please email Paula Nolan, call 0113 204 2464 / Fax: 0113 389 9871 or mail to: Royal Town Planning Institute, The Studio, 32 The Calls, Leeds LS2 7EW. Map and directions:
YORKSHIRE CONFERENCE SERIES 2010 PROGRAMME
The next event in our programme will be the 'Planning and the Professional' conference. It is on Thursday 22nd July 2010 at the Peak Lecture Theatre at Sheffield Hallam University.This event will examine the art and science of promoting best practice and professionalism in planning, exploring how the profession is defined and what is expected of modern day planners who are tasked with the responsibility of delivering contemporary solutions in an increasingly challenging environment. Programme timetable and booking form available here or via Email bookings to the Regional office: yorkshire@rtpi.org.uk or fax to 0113 389 9871.
YORKSHIRE PLANNING AID
Independent planning advice and assistance for individuals and community groups in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Please contact Jacqui Baines, Regional Planning Aid Manager, on Tel: 0113 204 2460 or Email or see website
LADIES IN PLANNING (LIP)
In early February a Ladies in Planning event was held at Norman’s bar in Leeds. The event aimed to bring together like-minded individuals in the planning arena to network and share experiences from their working lives. The event was a huge success with around 30 professional women from the private and public sector in attendance, ranging from planners to surveyors. Feedback from the night suggested that the informal setting and wide mix of people made it really enjoyable and we will be looking to host more events in the future.
Ladies in Planning will be in touch about future events and if you would like to be added to our mailing list, come along or offer any suggestions, please contact us at marie-louise.gray@jacobs.com or Catherine.fay@renew-leeds.co.uk.
RTPI Yorkshire Planning Awards 2010 (Extended Deadline!)
Entries to regional RTPI Planning Awards are now welcome. The closing date for entries this year has been extended to Wednesday 7th July 2010. All entries to the RTPI national awards will automatically be entered. Further details about categories and the criteria are here or in the left hand column of this website.
Check for details at: yorkshire@rtpi.org.uk . Further details will be available in the next issue of Root and Branch newsletter.We hope to have a bumper number of entries from Yorkshire region this year so please circulate to colleagues in all departments.
RTPI Planning Awards 2009
Individual pages for the winners and commendations of the National RTPI Planning Awards 2009 are available from here http://www.rtpi.org.uk/item/420/23/5/3 .
Winners for the Yorkshire region were:
Castle Howard conservation management planandBarnsley Education sites DPD
TODAY AND TOMORROW'S LEADERS' AWARDS 2009
Planning Awards – Celebrating Success
We held our Annual General Meeting in December 2009, which kicked off with an informative presentation from Hull Gateway and Hull City Council about the Newington St Andrews Area Action Plan, winner of our 2009 Yorkshire Region Planning Award. The team was then presented with a trophy to mark their success. An article on this project appeared in the Autumn 2009 issue of Root and Branch.
We then presented the President’s Today’s and Tomorrow’s Leaders’ Awards on behalf of the 2009 RTPI President, Martin Willey. In this region, the award for Today’s Leader was made to Neville Ford of Wakefield MDC, and Tomorrow’s Leader to Bhupinder Dev at Bradford MDC.
Neville Ford’s award recognised his leadership of colleague and partners in developing the local development framework for Wakefield, a pioneer amongst urban authorities in this respect. Wakefield currently has in place an adopted Core Strategy, Development Policies and Waste Development Plan Documents, and an Area Action Plan for Central Wakefield. This has significantly helped to place planning at the core of strategic policy decision making. Neville leads the spatial planning team at the authority, where he has worked since 1986.
Bhupinder Dev currently leads the LDF team at Bradford MDC. At Bradford, Bhupinder has pioneered new approaches to engagement and participation in plan making, including the use of social networking sites. Bhupinder’s dedication to planning extends beyond work, and is actively involved in community planning in his local community in Leeds. He has also committed significant amounts of personal time to establishing the YORnet group for young built environment professionals in the region, promoting inter-disciplinary networking, and has also been the region’s Young Planner representative.
The winners were presented with framed certificates and bottles of champagne, generously sponsored by Peter Wilbraham and law firm Cobbetts.
We await confirmation on plans to repeat the Today’s and Tomorrow’s Leaders Awards for 2010.
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Latest Events
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| 15-Sep-10 | Design Quality in Contemporary Housing Development - Leeds |
| 21-Oct-10 | Planning Law Update - LEEDS |
| 18-Nov-10 | Planning for Health and Social Wellbeing - SHEFFIELD |
| 09-Dec-10 | Spatial Planning: Where Are We Now? - LEEDS |
Latest Articles
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| 07-Jun-10 | Regional Activities Committee 2010 |
| 07-Jun-10 | Regional Management Board |
| 11-May-10 | RTPI Yorkshire Newsletters |
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| 18-Jul-07 | Links to Other Organisations |
| 25-Jan-07 | YPA Launches New Training Programme |
| 01-Jan-07 | YORnet |
