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Ask the Expert - Lighting in planning (Webinar)

Free
23 July 2026 at 12:00 - 13:00
Organised by RTPI South West

What to expect:

The webinar will focus on a range of topics relevant across several disciplines within planning:

  • Lighting design
  • Road lighting design considerations
  • Lighting for ecology, particularly bats
  • Lighting for dark skies
  • Lighting Strategies and Lighting Impact Assessments for planning and what these should include
  • What to look out for when instructing a lighting consultant
  • How to manage lighting-related planning conditions and why we should be seeking to avoid them through providing lighting details upfront
  • How to effectively implement a Lighting Monitoring Plan

 

What you'll gain:

  • How to consider lighting during the design process
  • How to manage lighting related planning conditions
  • Lighting design as a discipline, and how this ties into ensuring there is a suitable lighting strategy for a project that can be robustly assessed in a Lighting Impact Statement

This event is eligible for up to 1 hours of CPD and covers the following subjects from the core CPD framework:

  1. Placemaking and Design
  2. Climate Change and Environmental Planning

Speakers:

Ryan Carroll, Associate Director - DFL