Green Infrastructure and the National Planning Policy Framework 2 How do we value trees & other green infrastructure in the urban environment?
20 Sep 2018
How do we value trees & other green infrastructure in the urban environment?
I was pleased to part of the excellent workshop session aranged by Emma Ferranti on valuing Trees and GI at University of Birmngham on 19th September. My talk evaluating the new NPPF in terms of GI provision and poliicy wording is below in the agenda
Agenda
10:30Coffee and arrivals
10:50Welcome from Chair, Michael Barker, RTPI West Midlands
11:00Opening presentation: Developments and green infrastructure, Paul Cutler
11:25Green Infrastructure & the National Planning Policy Framework, Alister Scott 
11:50Trees in the Planning System, Jeremy Barrell
12:15Natural Capital Planning Tool, Oliver Holzinger
12:40Session One overview – questions, comments, ideas
12:50LUNCH
13:30Capital Asset Valuation of Amenity Trees (CAVAT), Chris Neilan
13:55i-Tree, Kenton Rogers
14:20Ealing i-Tree project, Kate Sheldon & Lizzie Pace
14:45Session Two overview – questions, comments, ideas
14:55Coffee Break
15:10GI-Val, the Mersey Forest's green infrastructure valuation toolkit, Paul Nolan
15:35Urban Green Space Valuation Toolkit, Therese Karger-Lerchl
16:00From Bicester and Beyond – tools for mapping and assessing urban GI, Alison Smith
16:25Session Three overview – questions, comments, ideas
16:35Panel Discussion - Address key questions from the delegates collected during the day
17:15Conference Close
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