Previous events

Understanding and navigating the RTPI APC process - 3 December 2012

Good Design = Good Planning #2 - 29 November 2012

An event held at the NLA, Store Street Gallery.  The topic for this seminar was "Best (and worst) practise in Urban Design.

RTPI London AGM and Quiz of the Year 2012

A very well attended Annual General Meeting followed by an exciting pub quiz.

Nine Elms Project update and tur of the Riverlight Development - 22 November 2012

World Town Planning Day - 8 November 2012

Once again, this annual seminar went very well and proved popular amongst the planners in London.  If you missed it then you can see the presentations by clicking here.

Good Design = Good Planning Seminar #1 - 27 September 2012

An event with Design for London, Cabe and the NLA. The first in a series of three high profile lectures to promote high standards of urban design amongst planning professionals was very well attended by a wide range of high level professional delegates. Click below to view the presentations given:

Sir Terry Farrell, Farrells – The Architects Perspective

Professor Matthew Carmona, UCL – Decoding Design Governance

Jim Eyre, Design Council CABE – London Design Review

RTPI London Football Tournament - 21 September 2012

The football tournament was once again a huge success, with teams from all over London joining in.  The write up for the event is here.  The overall tournament winners were London Borough of Newham, runners up London Borough of Southwark, the Plate winners were NLP Planning and the runners up and sponsors were Indigo Planning. 

Viability Seminar - 12 September 2012

A joint events with the Bartlett School of Planning UCL.  Speakers John Stewart- Home Builders Federation, Pat McAllister - Bartlett School of Planning UCL and Keith Holland - Planning Inspectorate.  The seminar was very well received, a full write up can be found on the RTPI London Blog.

Neighbourhood Planning Seminar - 24 July 2012

A joint event with Planning Aid for London, back by popular demand due to the success of the earlier seminar on 9 May.  Please click here to be taken to the presentations from the evening.

Good Design = Good Planning - 25 June 2012

This event was held jointly with RTPI London and the NLA.  It was hosted by Alan Baxter Associates.  The evening went very well and a wide spectrum of delegates attended to hear presentations from Colin Haylock - RTPI President, David Taylor - Alan Baxter Associates, Peter Murray - NLA and Robin Nicholson

Planning Law Update - 21 May 2012

SJ Berwin hosted and presented this years update.  You can find the presentations here.

Planners Vs Architects Table Football - 17 May 2012

The Annual battle between planners and architects finaly gave way to the RIBA Architects won...come on planners, we have a year to practise!

Cycling in London Series - 17 May 2012

A further set of presentations given from

Neighbourhood Planning in London - 9 May 2012

Please click here  and here to be taken to the presentations from this event

Retail Made Easy - 9 May 2012

Sarah Perryman and Hannah Fortune from the NLP Retail team gave presentations. 

Walking Tour of the Royal Docks - 4 May 2012

A chance to see the development growing at the Royal Docks.

Cycling in London Series - 4 May 2012

Tom Bodganowicz - London Cycle Campaign, Mark Frost - LB Hounslow, Tim Pharoah - Independant Consultant and Dick Vincent - British Waterways.

Wine Tasting Evening - 3 May 2012

As part of the RTPI London Presidents Visit we held a networking evening sponsored by KDH Associates. Photos from this evening can be found here.

East London Infrastructure Seminar - 3 May 2012

Elizabeth Hegarty - City Airport, Andrew Barry-Purssell and Julian Ware - GLA, Julie Davis - Crossrail, Andrew Dorrian and Michael Johnson - TfL and Neil Kedar and Gabrielle Coyle - TfL.

APC at DTZ - 16 April 2012

DTZ hosted another successful evening full of helpful APC knowledge, cv skills and frequently asked questions answered.

What Future for our High Streets - 28 March 2012

CBRE hosted and Tim Danaher chaired and evening debate on where our high streets are headed.

University Careers Series

South Bank, UCL, Westminster and Kingston all held an evening of planning support and cv writing throughout February and March.

Community infrastructure levy: payment and collection - 18:00 - 20:00 -Wednesday 1 february 2012

Here are the presentations from the CiL seminar on Wednesday 1 February.

Richard Linton, GLA - Graham Jones, Jones and Jones Associates and POS CIL Lead - Steve Dennington, LB Croydon and Gilian MacInnes, Planning Advisory Service