Our sponsors are extremely important to us in delivering the Wales Planning Conference and we are very grateful to Savills and FTB for their generous support.
Savills 
Our team at Savills Cardiff comprises 18 planning and EIA professionals, delivering focused town planning consultancy, services and strategic input on high profile, residential, retail, leisure, energy, infrastructure and mixed-use urban regeneration schemes. Our team of industry-leading experts work together to bring a vast range of experience, expertise and specialism across both traditional and innovative sectors.
With deep local knowledge and extensive national reach, we act for a broad range of clients, including both the public and private sectors. Our team are committed to shaping sustainable, inclusive places that meet the needs of communities and clients alike and deliver successful outcomes. See our recent achievements here.
Savills Cardiff is proud to sponsor the RTPI Cymru conference, supporting an institute who lead the conversation around the future of planning over the next 25 years.
FTB
FTB is a barristers’ chambers with a leading reputation for planning, environment, infrastructure, licensing, compulsory purchase and land valuation, rating, local government, ecclesiastical and religious liberty, regulatory crime and associated aspects of EU law.
Chambers has a reputation for excellence in planning and related areas of law and is consistently featured in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 for our expertise and leading role in the field.
We are instructed by both the private and the public sectors. Whilst our private clients include many of the country's largest commercial operators, Chambers is also respected for its work on behalf of community and interest groups, small businesses and individuals.
Our work in the public sector is for local government and for other public bodies.
Chambers undertakes work in all areas of planning law, appearing at:
- Planning and enforcement appeal inquiries
- Development plan inquiries
- Examinations in public and in the law courts when challenges are made to administrative decisions
Members are regularly instructed in relation to a broad spectrum of schemes including:
- Residential Housing
- Retail
- Leisure and sport
- Commercial
- Major infrastructure projects
- Listed buildings
- Advertisements
- Trees
- Minerals
- Local plans
- Section 106 and CIL agreements
- Hemp farms, cannabis laboratories, processing plants and changes of land use
- Restrictive covenants