Registration and refreshments
08:45 to
09:30
Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
09:30 to
09:40
Speaker:
Dr Rufus Howard.
Policy Lead - Impact Assessment and Sustainable Finance.
IEMA.
Part 1: The future direction of policy and environmental assessments
09:40 to
10:50
Panel Discussion: The future of environmental assessments – where is the industry heading?
09:40 to
10:25
- Are EOR’s an effective replacement for the current environmental assessment regime?
- How can professionals be better supported by government?
- Addressing the skills gap – effectively attracting and retaining new talent
- How can projects prepare now for reform
Speakers:
Grant Douglas.
Head of Planning & Environmental Policy.
ScottishPower Renewables.
Robert Pile.
Director.
LDA Design.
Dr Amy Constable.
Principal Monitoring Environmental Law Officer.
Office for Environmental Protection.
Anticipating future changes to environmental outcome reporting
10:25 to
10:50
- How has the current system worked until now?
- How should projects be preparing for future reform? What does this mean in practice?
Speaker:
Fiona Ross.
Legal Director.
Pinsent Masons.
Morning refreshments
10:50 to
11:20
Part 2: Collaborating with project teams and key stakeholders
11:20 to
12:30
Forming an iterative design approach and facilitating collaborative project design
11:20 to
11:45
- How EIA can bring value to project design
- Overcoming barriers to influencing the design process – when and how to provide input
- Early engagement with other project teams
Speaker:
Alister Kratt.
Director.
LDA Design.
Panel Discussion – effectively collaborating with project stakeholders to deliver proportionate EIA
11:45 to
12:30
- Successfully scoping aspects in and out of applications
- Engaging early on project details and working together effectively through to project delivery
- Embracing innovation that makes proportionality easier
- Improving confidence in the system and avoiding judicial review
Speakers:
Karl Fuller.
Principal Environmental Protection Officer.
Environment Agency.
Josh Fothergill.
Founder & Director.
Fothergill Training & Consulting.
Networking lunch
12:30 to
13:30
Part 3: Practical lessons for conducting successful environmental assessments
13:30 to
14:45
Social value as a catalyst for community transformation
13:30 to
13:55
- Understanding social value
- Where does social value fit within infrastructure schemes
- Considering short term thinking versus long term impact
- Evolution of social value and what does the future hold
Speaker:
Caron Dunlop.
Technical Director – Social Value.
Mott MacDonald.
Practically implementing biodiversity net gain into your project
13:55 to
14:20
- Understanding new requirements
- Navigating the biodiversity units process
- Implementing a successful biodiversity strategy
Speaker:
Jon Davies.
Director.
RSK Wilding.
Incorporating climate change resilience and Net Zero into EIA applications
14:20 to
14:45
- Evaluating the project's vulnerability to climate change impacts, including sea level rise, extreme weather and precipitation patterns
- Including mitigation measures to improve resilience
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in line with the push to net zero
Speaker:
Joanna Wright.
Director of Environmental Planning.
LUC.
Afternoon networking and refreshments
14:45 to
15:15
Case Study
15:15 to
15:45
- Conducting EIA over a large geography and with multiple stakeholders
- Approach to engagement and reflecting feedback
- Reflection on Env Outcomes Reports
Speaker:
Davinder Hothi.
Head of Environment - Phase Two.
HS2.
Part 4: Improving the efficiency of EIA – employing digital EIA and monitoring the long term impact of your development
15:45 to
16:35
What is digital EIA? How can it be implemented effectively?
15:45 to
16:10
- Improving the accessibility of environmental assessment information
- Successfully incorporating digital forms of EIA
- Ensuring the integrity of data sharing
Speaker:
Sion Roberts.
Marine Consents Manager.
The Crown Estate.
Monitoring and delivering mitigation commitments through to project delivery
16:10 to
16:35
- Delivering EIA mitigation commitments through to project delivery
- Establishing robust long term monitoring and post project evaluations
- Measuring the effectiveness of mitigation measures
- Using data to inform future decision making
Speaker:
Marc Murray.
Projects Director.
Cierco Energy.
Chair's closing remarks
16:35 to
16:45
Close of conference and networking drinks
16:45 to
18:00