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This essential guide to planning law is designed to equip lawyers and officers new to planning law with a basic level of knowledge in a range of areas, with a particular focus on issues relevant to the local authority context. The course includes an overview of the planning system in England and the role of planning law within that system, including the most recent reforms. It explains key terms such as “development” and “development plan”. It reviews the planning application process in detail and includes specific sessions on Section 106 agreements and enforcement. The course:
Provides a comprehensive overview of the whole system of planning law
Covers the most recent reforms to the planning system
Shows how law and policy work together in that system
Identifies the main problem areas for practitioners
Looks at some of the ways those problems have been overcome
Identifies any problems which are still outstanding
Reviews the main changes introduced by the Localism Act, Growth and Infrastructure Act and recent case law
The day will cover:
The historical context of the planning system
Development and Development plans
The law and procedure of determining planning applications
Section 106 obligations
The enforcement of planning control
The course is aimed primarily at lawyers in local government who are new to planning but would also be useful for local authority members, committee clerks dealing with planning issues and lawyers working in the public sector generally.
Strategic and Digital Planning Advisor, Pinsent Masons LLP
Dr Sue Chadwick is the Strategic and Digital Planning Advisor at Pinsent Masons LLP. Sue’s background is as a planning solicitor and academic. She has worked primarily in local government including for District and County authorities and two London Boroughs. Her experience includes advising planning committees, completing s106 agreements, planning enforcement and project management of the redevelopment of Cambridge city centre, facilitated with use of a CPO. She has a doctorate in planning law, has lectured in planning law for Cambridge University and currently lectures for Brighton University.
Since 2017 Sue has specialised in Digital Planning, including a year as a Research Fellow with the Open Data Institute. She is Chair of the Business London Data Working Group and a Member of the London Data Board, Brent Council Data Ethics Board, the Institute of Cyber Security for Society and the Real Estate Data Foundation. She maintains the LexisNexis note on digital planning and has authored and co-authored articles in the Journal of Planning and Environmental Law on digital exclusion, and automated decision making.
Dr Sue Chadwick is the Strategic and Digital Planning Advisor at Pinsent Masons LLP. Sue’s background is as a planning solicitor and academic. She has worked primarily in local government including for District and County authorities and two London Boroughs. Her experience includes advising planning committees, completing s106 agreements, planning enforcement and project management of the redevelopment of Cambridge city centre, facilitated with use of a CPO. She has a doctorate in planning law, has lectured in planning law for Cambridge University and currently lectures for Brighton University.
Since 2017 Sue has specialised in Digital Planning, including a year as a Research Fellow with the Open Data Institute. She is Chair of the Business London Data Working Group and a Member of the London Data Board, Brent Council Data Ethics Board, the Institute of Cyber Security for Society and the Real Estate Data Foundation. She maintains the LexisNexis note on digital planning and has authored and co-authored articles in the Journal of Planning and Environmental Law on digital exclusion, and automated decision making.
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