Thursday 2nd July 2015 (13.00 – 16.30)
SEMINAR: WALES INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PLAN 2014; AND THE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AGENDA.
Kinmel Hotel and Spa, St Georges Road, Abergele.
Programme
13.00 Registration and Lunch.
14.00 Introduction and Welcome,
Chair: David Rowlands Senior Vice Chairman ICE Wales Cymru
Session 1 WIIPS: The current position – Chair David Rowlands
14.05 Keynote presentation by Jane Hutt A.M., Minister for Finance and Government Business
14.25 Questions to the Minister
14.35 Coffee break
Session 2 WIIPS: The Way Forward – Green Infrastructure. Chair tbc
14.50 Green Infrastructure: Best Practice – Francis Hesketh, Director of the Environment Partnership Consultancy.
15.20 The Greener Grangetown Project and potential application in Wales, Ian Titherington, Cardiff City Council
15.50 Planning for Green Infrastructure – Nicola Corbishley Planning Policy Manager, Wrexham CBC.
16.10 Panel discussion with Q & A
16.30 end
Delegate fee: £35 plus VAT. Contact: Tel. (029) 2063 0561
The Speakers
Jane Hutt AM, Minister for Finance and Government Business. Prior to her election to the National Assembly for Wales, Jane was director of Chwarae Teg (Fair Play) and was the Welsh member on the New Opportunities (UK) Fund and was an elected Member of the former South Glamorgan County Council.
Having served as Minister for Health and Social Services (1999-2005), Minister for Assembly Business, Children and Equalities (2005-2007) and Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (2007-2009), Jane was appointed as Minister for Budget and Business in December 2009. Following re-election to the National Assembly for Wales in May 2011, Jane Hutt was appointed Minister for Finance and Leader of the House; and in March 2013 and was appointed Minister for Finance. In September 2014, she was appointed Minister for Finance and Government Business.
Francis Hesketh, Director of the Environment Partnership Consultancy is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute, the Institute of Chartered Foresters, the Institute Ecology and Environmental Management; and a Chartered Environmentalist. After graduating in 1983 he became a forester in Scotland, before working for the TEAR Fund on the Afghan border. Returning to the U.K. he worked as an ecologist, first with Gillespies, then Merseyside Councils. He co-founded TEP in 1997, based in North West England. Among TEP’s portfolio of work in the U.K., that in Wales includes the Flintshire Coast GI Plan and Coast Park Prospectus; and a Green Infrastructure Framework for North East Wales, Cheshire and the Wirral on behalf of the Mersey Dee Alliance.
Ian Titherington to follow
Nicola Corbishley, Planning Policy Manager at Wrexham CBC, is a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and currently sits on the RTPI Planning and Research Forum. On graduating from the University of Wales Aberystwyth with a BSc Hons in Geography in 2004 she went on to work as a Development Control officer with Denbighshire County Council dealing with a range of major and minor applications. During her time there she completed a Masters degree in Environmental Planning from Liverpool John Mores University prior to moving to Wrexham CBC in 2008 as a Planner in the Policy Team. Following a succession of Planning Policy posts she is now the Planning Policy Manager with responsibility for leading the LDP Team and Environmental Specialists. One of her tasks has been the incorporation of green infrastructure principles into the Council’s planning policies and strategies and she is particularly interested in open space and masterplanning.
The Regeneration Skills Collective Wales would like to thank
ICE Wales Cymru for their organisational and administrative assistance, without which this event could not have been held