The Saturday Morning Planning School
The planning system is a complex world of jargon-filled regulations, inscrutable maps and emotionally charged meetings. It is inhabited by an unseemly mixture of politicians, developers and consultants, with ordinary local people often bearing the brunt of their deals in the high streets and neighbourhood roads where we live. It is often blamed for blighting our beloved places with ugly buildings, and yet is similarly accused of holding back the development we need to meet pentup housing demand.
Planning is one of the most visible and potent outworkings of our democracy. It is the forum that safeguards by law our rights as citizens to influence the places we live and work in the city.
How then do we engage with the planning system? Why did some parts of London end up the way they did? What (or who) are the main forces at work in shaping urban form? How can we value the past while thinking about London's future? The Saturday Planning School will be a forum for discussing these issues in the midst of a rapidly changing London. As the city sees unprecedented changes in infrastructure provision, physical growth and demographic change, what does a well-functioning planning system look like?
Over five weeks, experts at the coal face of shaping London will be discussing the workings and challenges of London's planning system through the lens of scale - successively scrutinising the site, the neighbourhood, the borough and the city with an interlude on density and housing.
Details
| Dates | Saturdays, 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 September 2018 |
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| Location | London Metropolitan University The Cass, 16 Goulston Street, E1 7TP Aldgate East (District, Hammersmith & City lines) |
| Cost | £5 individual sessions / £20 block booking |
| Block booking details | thelondonsociety *Block booking discount expires on Friday, 31 August |
| Contact | Jane Clossick |
| Date/times | Title | Speakers | Location | Book now |
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| Saturday 1 September 11.30am-12.30pm |
The Site | Dr. David Knight & Guy Rochez | Goulston Street | Register |
| Saturday 8 September 11.30am-12.30pm |
The Neighbourhood | Dr Jan Kattein & David Barrie | Goulston Street | Register |
| Saturday 15 September 11.30am-12.30pm |
Density and Housing | Claire Bennie & Lorraine Hughes | Goulston Street | Register |
| Saturday 22 September 11.30am-12.30pm |
The Borough | Patricia Brown & Dr Jessica Ferm | Goulston Street | Register |
| Saturday 29 September 11.30am-12.30pm |
The City | Mark Brearley & Euan Mills | Goulston Street | Register |
*Block booking discount expires on Friday, 31 August
