39 Essex Chambers’ Annual One Day Planning, Environment and Property Seminar 2024
Event Slides:
Download the slides for the event below.
The Event:
This seminar provided an informative and insightful overview of key developments in the planning and environmental spheres over the past few months and looked ahead to what is to be expected in 2024. ‘Hot topics’ included:
- What does the 2023 NPPF mean for development in 2024?
- The start of compulsory biodiversity net gain in February 2023 and its impact on schemes coming forward.
- The implications of recent planning case law, including the latest chapter in the Hillside saga
- Evolving themes in environmental case law
- How alternative dispute resolution is working in the planning and environmental context
- Planning conditions and s73 applications
- Environmental criminal prosecutions
Programme:
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Times |
Plenary |
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9.00am |
Registration / Tea and Coffee |
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9.30am |
Opening Remarks from Heads of Group - Tom Hill KC |
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9.45am |
Talk 1: Environment Case Law Update – Rose Grogan, Ruth Keating and Christopher Moss |
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10.30am |
Talk 2: Biodiversity Net Gain – Ned Helme |
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11.00am |
Coffee Break |
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11.15am |
Talk 3: Criminal Procedure for Environmental Practitioners – Rachel Troup |
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11.45am |
Talk 4: Planning Case Law Update – Daniel Stedman-Jones and Ella Grodzinski |
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12.30pm |
Talk 5: Wolverhampton City Council v London Gypsies and Travellers [2023] UKSC 47 – narrow and broad lessons’ – David Sawtell and Celia Reynolds |
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1.00pm |
Lunch |
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1.45pm |
Talk 6: ‘How the use of ADR techniques can work within the planning process’ – John Pugh-Smith and Celina Colquhoun |
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2.15pm |
Talk 7: NPPF – Victoria Hutton, James Burton |
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3.00pm |
Talk 8: Asylum Accommodation and the Planning Issues Arising – Richard Wald KC and Jake Thorold |
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3.30pm |
Talk 9: Planning Conditions and s.73 - Richard Harwood KC |
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4.00pm |
Q&A: John Pugh-Smith (Chairing) |
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4.30pm |
Finish/Drinks |
