Seminar

39 Essex Chambers’ Annual One Day Planning, Environment and Property Seminar 2024

05/03/2024 9:00 am – 05/03/2024 4:30 pm

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:

Times	Plenary
9.00am	Registration / Tea and Coffee
9.30am	Opening Remarks from Heads of Group – Tom Hill KC
9.45am	Talk 1: Environment Case Law Update – Rose Grogan, Ruth Keating and Christopher Moss
10.30am	Talk 2: Biodiversity Net Gain – Ned Helme
11.00am	Coffee Break
11.15am	Talk 3: Criminal Procedure for Environmental Practitioners – Rachel Troup
11.45am	Talk 4: Planning Case Law Update – Daniel Stedman-Jones and Ella Grodzinski
12.30pm	Talk 5: Wolverhampton City Council v London Gypsies and Travellers [2023] UKSC 47 – narrow and broad lessons’ – David Sawtell and Celia Reynolds
1.00pm	Lunch
1.45pm	Talk 6: ‘How the use of ADR techniques can work within the planning process’ – John Pugh-Smith and Celina Colquhoun
2.15pm	Talk 7: NPPF – Victoria Hutton, James Burton
3.00pm	Talk 8: Asylum Accommodation and the Planning Issues Arising – Richard Wald KC and Jake Thorold
3.30pm	Talk 9: Planning Conditions and s.73 – Richard Harwood KC
4.00pm	Q&A: John Pugh-Smith (Chairing)
4.30pm	Finish/Drinks