Currently there is lack of guidance for professionals in relation to the implementation of sustainable transport in planning and development processes, and as such, there is a reluctance to adapt. This is something that needs to be improved, as the creation of sustainable developments will enable decarbonisation goals to be met. The discussion about better integration of land-use and transport is not new, but the discussion needs to be refocused around the need for climate action.
A learning experience like no other; this event will give the latest update from Government and industry as well as the views of the CIHT. Get up to speed and discover best practice and the work that needs to be done to improve land-use and transport planning to enable sustainable development.
CIHT is thrilled to be hosting the event both in person and digitally. In person attendees will be able to take part in interactive workshops and get their voices heard on this important subject.
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A stellar line-up featuring big thinkers, decision makers and game changers will deliver insight, relevant content, and experiences to help highways and transportation professionals feel more confident, capable and inspired.
Our Technical Seminars have been empowering highways and transportation professionals for several years, get the information you need when people are looking at you for answers and attend this May.
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Includes several hours of CPD, workshops, insight that you can apply to your role and inspirational thought leadership.
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Discover what our previous event attendees had to say:
"Really insightful range of case studies from across the industry, evidencing best practice, emerging trends and creating benchmarks that can effectively measure successes." - Dan Johnson, Suffolk County Council
"I found the event to be very insightful and information, and the speakers were very knowledgeable." - Dezi Li, Highways England
“All really engaging presenters, very informative and a great opportunity to network too.” - Terry Wilkinson, ACO Technologies PLC
Interested in broadening your skillset, being inspired and informed? Why not attend day two and three of CIHT’s May Technical Seminars as well?
Octavius is the new name for Osborne Infrastructure. Octavius embodies our rich heritage of over 50 years including the last 30 focussed specifically on transport infrastructure solutions. We collaborate with our customers, integrate our suppliers and develop our people to deliver assured, sustainable and efficient transport infrastructure solutions.
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If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the CIHT Conferences & Events Team on +44 (0)20 7336 1555 or conferences@ciht.org.uk
Biography: Darran is Trustee and Fellow of the CIHT and previous Chair of the North East and Cumbria region. As a Director of Milestone Transport Planning Ltd he provides transportation, highways and planning advice to both their public and private sector clients, building his career from designing and supervising the construction of highways schemes, through strategic viability and feasibility studies, to traffic modelling and simulations, Darran now supports our clients at a strategic level and as an expert witness at public inquiries and tribunals.
For the past 17 years Darran has specialised in transportation, gaining extensive experience across hundreds of projects including strategic infrastructure, residential, leisure, commercial, education, retail and surface mining proposals. Spending almost two years seconded to Sunderland City Council, along with time in York and Northumberland Councils, his knowledge of the public sector influences his private sector work to ensure that our projects balance the (often competing) ideals of the Promoter and the Highways Authority.
Synopsis: Following publication of Gear Change, Bus Back Better and the Transport Decarbonisation Plan, the Department of Transport is driving a step change in the way we think about transport. By recognising its transformative and catalysing benefits that can unlock development sites we can begin to make sustainable growth a reality with new housing and employment site located in the areas most accessible to sustainable transport or those areas that can be made more accessible by infrastructure investment.
Creating places that offer genuine modal choice, decarbonise our transport network and embrace the principles of 20-minute neighbourhoods.
The Planning, Housing and Transport Team at DfT have been set up to help realise this ambition. This presentation will set out the work we are doing with modal colleagues and across Whitehall on how we can do things differently and better.
Biography: Robert Singleton MRTPI is an experienced town planner with over 16 years in the profession. He has a wide range of experience in the public sector including leading an innovative sustainable design and construction team, acting as planning lead for major regeneration projects and Development Consent Orders, and more recently heading up the National Infrastructure Team at the then MHCLG.
Following a move to the DfT in 2019, Robert has been working on establishing and growing a centre of excellence for engaging with planning, housing and transportation matters for the Department and capable of providing expert and specialist planning and housing input to the full range of modal policy areas. The key driver of the new Planning, Housing and Transport Team is to foster a step change and better align the spatial planning with transport to drive truly sustainable patterns of development served by the right infrastructure, delivered in the right place and at the right time.
Synopsis: This presentation looks at principles of good placemaking and the importance of creating places that support physical activity, including more walking and cycling, and how this is supported by national planning policy and guidance.
Biography: Sarah started her role at DLUHC in November 2021. She is an architect, urban designer and project manager with over 25 years’ experience helping public and private sector clients deliver residential-led projects from masterplans to individual homes. Sarah has worked on projects from site finding to post-occupation, working closely with design and construction teams as well as being involved in large scale housing programmes and R&D in construction methods
Prior to her current position, Sarah worked for nine years as development manager and then managing director at Solidspace, an independent architect-led developer. Before this Sarah worked in local government as housing lead for an Ecotown in Hampshire – delivering the programmes’ early win projects. Working for over seven years at CABE, Sarah was senior advisor and head of urban design and homes, where she helped to embed design quality tools and processes in large scale government programmes.
Synopsis: This talk aims to raise awareness of the emerging Vision and Validate / Decide and Provide approach to the planning of transport infrastructure for new (housing) development – through the promotion of sustainable transport networks and systems, appropriate land-use and spatial layouts of sites, and through digital and smart connectivity; seeking to explore and invite current and ongoing application of this approach in taking development through the planning system.
Biography: Jon Sandford is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Town Planner. Jon joined Homes England (HCA) in 2010 and is current a national lead in relation to infrastructure and transportation planning within the Master Development and Design Team – His role is to facilitate larges sites progressing though the planning system, liaise with stakeholders in the infrastructure sector, and facilitate design quality in housing, associated master plans and infrastructure delivery for housing. An emerging theme of his work is in exploring the application of the new “Vision and Validate / Decide and Provide” approach to planning for new development - as recently cited in the DfT’s Decarbonisation of Transport publication.
His career has involved senior level roles in multi-disciplinary consultancies working on a range of developments and locations in the UK and overseas – with an emphasis in transportation planning and the master-planning of large sites. Complimentary experience relates to project and business management in different organisational settings.
Synopsis: This presentation will be a description of social trends and how these relate to the way in which accessibility is changing. In particular, the freedom achieved through the pandemic. Accessibility starts with masterplanning, and how new developments are embracing new ideas, which sometimes are old ideas. If we do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we used to get. The practical application of the Vision & Validate paradigm
Biography: Mike is a Founding Director of Vectos with 30 years’ experience in transport planning within the development industry. His expertise includes transport masterplanning and placemaking design, advising on transport policy, directing innovative transport approaches to schemes, and developing and presenting cogent arguments, regularly at Public Inquiry. He integrates our international R&D projects into UK transport planning practices, to ensure that local development planning projects immediately capitalise on these sustainable solutions.
He is a Fellow of CIHT and a Member of TPS, and he is also a Design Council Expert and a New London Architecture Transport & Infrastructure Expert. Outside of the industry, he is a Director of indoor climbing wall companies Big Rock Climbing and Roc-Bloc. When not on the day job, he enjoys ski touring, downhill mountain biking, mountaineering, rock climbing and of course cycling.
Synopsis: This presentation will identify the key barriers to achieving sustainable outcomes for new developments, along with a series of recommendations as to how these might be best resolved. It will draw on the work of the CIHT report ‘Better Planning, Better Transport, Better Places’ of which he was a co-author, combined with latest industry thinking drawn from a recent survey of CIHT, RTPI and TPS members into the issues practitioners face when seeking to encourage more people to walk, cycle and use public transport. It will also highlight case studies of good and bad practice, and what we can learn from them.
Biography: Jon is one of the UK’s leading sustainable transport planners, and the 2015 ‘smarter travel professional of the year’.
He has 30 years’ experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of transport strategies, policies and programmes, spanning the public and private sector. He has particular expertise in planning for sustainable development, public transport, travel behaviour change, and consensus-led transport strategy development.
He is an elected Council Member and Fellow of CIHT, and Visiting Research Fellow at UWE, in addition to his day-job overseeing two of the UK’s leading transport planning practices (ITP and Royal HaskoningDHV). His team have won many awards for their work including the CIHT Sustainable Transport Award in 2013, 2014 and 2017.
Synopsis: Emphasising how sustainability considerations need to be identified and secured at the beginning of the planning process, Cat will highlight how collaboration, behaviour and culture is key to developing sustainable transport solutions and how we can collectively take account of challenges of climate resilience, carbon neutrality, biodiversity and social value in design.
Cat will propose that by bringing people together from different disciplines and from different stages of a project lifecycle, diverse views, sustainable solutions and varying perspectives can be more easily accommodated in the design solution. This includes ensuring that there are open and curious relationships between legal, stakeholder, environmental, commercial, engineering and end user groups so that the final design is fit for the future, gives balanced outcomes and provides value for money.
Biography: Cat joined Octavius in October 2021. As Director of People & Sustainability, she is responsible for delivering outcomes that benefit people and places for the business, our customers and in the wider community.
Prior to joining Octavius, Cat has worked on a wide range of infrastructure projects including the Lower Thames Crossing, M25 and Victoria Station Upgrade, focussing on people, environmental and societal outcomes during the development and delivery phases.
She is driven to ensure that sustainability principles are at the heart of decision-making and are not a ‘bolt-on’ to any business model.
This event will take place at CIHT's head offices located on Old Street based in London.
The venue is only a 5-minute walk from Old Street Understand Station and hosts several restaurants, bars, pubs, and shops in the local area.
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