CIEEM Co-Lab - promoting collaborative working to deliver good outcomes for biodiversity and development alike (IN-PERSON)

Summary

Introducing the CIEEM Co-Lab! A question and answer panel event with council ecologists, planning officers and consultant ecologists working in Forest of Dean to promote improved collaboration and deliver good outcomes for biodiversity and development alike.

Description

In the first of what is hoped to be a series of similar events run by the South West CIEEM member network, we are pleased to introduce the CIEEM Co-Lab. This first event will be run alongside the Forest of Dean District Council and we hope to roll this out across other districts in the future to encourage a collaborative approach to addressing the ecological issues most pertinent in our region. This is a question and answer panel event to bring together ecologists working within the council, planning officers and consultant ecologists to help drive more collaboration and quality within our industry. The focus topics of this initial event will be “BNG” and “What is needed for planning?”. Ultimately we hope to drive the facilitation of high quality developments that deliver genuine benefits for biodiversity within the district through improved collaboration and engagement.

This is an in-person event. A virtual/ remote video option will be made available to allow the event to be observed but we will not be able to facilitate questions from virtual attendees.

Julian Arthur, Director, Tyler Grange
Julian is actively seeking to promote greater collaboration between consultant ecologists, LPAs, and other disciplines involved in the design of developments. He has more than 25 years’ experience in ecological consultancy, and has been an active member of CIEEM, most recently contributing to the ecology overlay to the RIBA plan of work, the update BS42020 and CIEEM’s bat mitigaton guidelines. Prior to that he was convenor for CIEEM’s southwest Member Network.

Caroline Lidgett: Lead Biodiversity Officer, FoDCC

An ecologist with over 30 years’ experience of working in the natural environment, specialising as an ecological advisor for development management and planning policy. She has a wide range of experience across the sector including a government agency, NGOs as well as county and district planning authorities.

Suzanne Hares, Senior Planning Officer, FoDDC
Hannah Ramsey, Senior Planning Officer, FoDCC
Katie Rees - Senior District Licencing Officer (Great Crested Newts) - Gloucestershire
Paul Stephen - Operations Manager (NatureSpace)

Knowledge Level

Suitable for all

Refreshments

Light refreshments provided

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This is an In-person event, if you cannot attend in person but would still like the opportunity to ask questions and observe the Q&A remotely please follow this booking link.

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