A Henry Stewart Market Briefing

The 2008 Planning Briefing

• What’s new
• What to do about it
• The opportunities
• The risks
• The latest creative thinking

All you would expect from a Henry Stewart Briefing and the expert panel of speakers who place their reputations four square behind their opinions.

This year the briefing covers:
• Planning for residential units – enough of small dwellings – the move from small to big An important developing issue
• Latest thinking on the planning supplement – preparing for a ‘roof tax’ or ‘per dwelling unit charge’. What charge for commercial or mixed developments? New risk
• Generic buildings are in favour, make getting planning consent easier and the S106 burden lighter New opportunity
• Working with the GLA tool kit – how to take full advantage New opportunity
• How we see it – a GLA official speaks Insiders view
• The state of the game in planning obligations negotiations Report from the front line
• Multi-user consents – where and how to benefit New expertise
• Latest thinking on developing deeper – the local residents fight back. What’s possible? What are the pro and contra arguments? New issue
• The move from hotel to residential and office to residential New market economic drivers
• Affordable Housing
- Threshold requirement levels
- The capacity test
- Creative strategies and negotiating tactics to reduce requirements – the ‘apply for something else first and then go for residential (a reinforce the ‘economic’ test ploy) New complexity
• Microflats – the planning issues New products
• How sustainability and reusable energy issues are impacting planning applications and consents
• The GLA’s wish list on planning New thinking
• Current wish lists of the major urban LAs Latest insights
• Strategic Assessment – what are the issues, what are the problems, where are the major opportunities, where are the areas of conflict – how will the issues be resolved? Strategic assessment
• The Olympic spillover Essential briefing
• Lessons from the latest case law and inspectors’ decisions Timely update

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The Creative ‘Outside the Box’ Session
• Developing underground
• Hotels
• Commercial
• Developing underwater
• The unplanned opportunities offered by the growth of convergence and multi-user

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For all planners, property developers, property traders, property investors, local authority representatives, housebuilders, retailers, surveyors, architects, environmental consultants, planning solicitors and barristers.

Full documentation will be provided to all delegates and adequate time made available for questions and discussion.

A practical briefing that is definitely not to be missed.

Thursday, 27 March 2008
The Radisson SAS Portman, London W1