Planning for the future – What do the next 25 years look like?
09:30 Welcome and H&S – Mark Hand, RTPI Cymru Director
Introduction – Aneurin Môn Parry, RTPI Cymru Chair 2025
Keynote speech with Q&A – Rebecca Evans MS
Plenary 1 – Planning with purpose: Delivering what matters
- Strategic planning – Prof Kevin Morgan, Cardiff University
- Decarbonising our energy supply - Ruth Jones, Megan Thomas, Akshat Vipin, WSP
- Health infrastructure – Liz Green and Cheryl Williams, PHW
- Q&A chaired by Sarah Groves-Philips MRTPI, Ceredigion County Council
Plenary 2 – Creating tomorrow: Planning for future generations
- Nature recovery – Helen Lucocq MRTPI, Woodlands Trust
- Net benefit for biodiversity, Stepwise and decisions – Jack Pugsley MRTPI, Savills
- Wellbeing of Future Generations – Alice Gardner MRTPI, Young Planners Cymru
- Q&A chaired by Tom Molyneux-Wright MRTPI, DPP
LUNCH
Breakout sessions:
Focus #1 Ensuring housing delivery in a Plan-led System
Gareth Williams MRTPI, Lichfields
Focus #2 Case Law Update
Francis Taylor Building
Focus #3 All-Wales nutrient neutrality calculator
Gail Pearce-Taylor, Ceredigion County Council
Focus #4 TAN 15
Barrie Davies, Asbri Planning and George Baker, JBA
Plenary 3 – Collaborative futures: A planning system that works together
Panel discussion with RICS (Sam Rees), RIBA/ RSAW (Bernadette Kinsella), CIH (Matthew Dicks), HBF (Mark Harris MRTPI), Landscape Institute (Kate Richards), CIHT (TBC), R-UK Cymru (Ben Lewis-Hayes, Chair of the RUK Cymru Strategy Group)
Plenary 4 – Smarter Planning: Data Driven and Effective Engagement
- AI and digital planning: The future? – Dr Daniel Slade MRTPI, RTPI
- Effective community engagement – Hannah Dineen MRTPI, Grasshopper
Closing remarks- Aneurin Môn Parry
Post-Conference drinks and networking sponsored by WSP
