Thursday 26 May: Planning Seminar

INVITATION:

National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

A Friends of the Earth / Town and Country Planning Association seminar

Thursday 26 May, 12-6pm

at TCPA, Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AS

This is a seminar on the Government's new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) - at this meeting we shall be sharing ideas with a range of coalition colleagues and putting together our initial response to the draft NPPF.

The NPPF is the key document setting overall planning policy. Its contents will be a test of whether the Government is championing sustainable development (SD) in its planning reforms and plans for economic recovery, or if SD and environmental issues are to play second-fiddle to business-as-usual economic growth.

Contact Charlotte Chan (020 7566 1650 charlotte.chan@foe.co.uk) if you wish to attend.

This roundtable is to formulate a second response to the Government’s proposals to reform national planning policy for town and country planning in England.

This national planning policy does not include the National Policy Statements, but will mean the reform of the existing planning policy statements on sustainable development, renewable energy, retail and economy. We know that the Government has a strong pro-growth agenda, and that they have already made announcements to the effect that the planning system is to be used to deliver economic development.

Outcome: The aim of the roundtable is to share views, discuss policies, and gather evidence for the submission of a second response, and to inform the Rights & Justice team’s continuing work on the NPPF, which we hope to develop into a counter-publication to the Government’s publication of the draft NPPF in early July 2011.

Attendees: Local and Regional Campaigners; Climate, Energy, Transport, Food and Resource Use Campaigners, Local Groups, Community Groups.