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16th - 18th September 2011, New College Oxford


2011 Programme

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FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER

16.30 - 19.00 Arrival and registration
16.30 - 18.00 Tea - JCR, New College
19.00 Reception - Cloisters, New College
20.00 Dinner in Hall, New College (Dinner Jacket)
21.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
  (1) Speaker: John Howell OBE MP
Chairman: Rupert Warren

SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER

08.00 - 09.00 Breakfast in Hall, New College
09.15 - 09.20 CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION: Rupert Warren
09.20 - 09.50 (2) Localism Bill - Why? What? When? How?
Speaker: Hugh Bullock
Chairman: Rory Joyce
09.50 - 10.20 (3) Localism and consultation - the what ifs
Speaker: Robert Gordon Clark
Chairman: Rory Joyce
10.20 - 10.40 Questions and Discussion
10.40 - 11.05 Coffee
11.05 - 11.35 (4) Localism Bill: challenges for local government
Speaker: Paul Rogerson CBE
Chairman: Leonora Rozee OBE
11.35 - 12.05 (5) Localism Bill: challenges for local government
Speaker: Jenny Rowlands
Chairman: Leonora Rozee OBE
12.05 - 12.25 Questions and Discussion
12.30 Lunch
13.45 - 15.15 (6) Debate - This House believes that locals should be able to sell planning permission
Introduction by Chairman Greg Jones QC
13.45 - 13.55

Proposer Simon Ricketts/Kate Creer
13.55 - 14.05

Opposer Simon Ricketts/Kate Creer
14.05 - 14.15

Seconding the Motion
14.00 - 14.05

Seconding the opposition
14.20 - 14.25

Debate from the floor
14.25 - 15.05

Opposition summary
15.05 - 15.10

Proposer’s summary
15.10 - 15.15

Vote
15.15 - 15.20
Tellers: Paul Winter and Sarah Stevens
15.20 Tea

REST OF AFTERNOON FREE

15.20 Saturday Afternoon Tour
Numbers limited/pre-booking necessary
18.30 - 19.30 Sweet & Maxwell Champagne Reception - Gardens or Founder’s Library, New College
19.30 Dinner in Hall, New College (Dinner Jacket)
  (7)
GUEST SPEAKER: Ian Dove QC
Chairman: Mary Cook

SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER

08.00 Church Service, New College Chapel
08.00 - 09.15 Breakfast in Hall, New College
09.30 - 09.40 CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION: Rupert Warren
09.40 - 10.15 (8) Total community retrofit - an accelerated model for the UK to reach its climate change obligations by 2050
Speaker: Peter Head CBE
Chairman: Michael Humphries QC
10.15 - 10.35 Questions and Discussion
10.35 - 11.10 (9) Legal Update
Speaker: Paul Tucker QC
Chairman: Paul Brown QC
11.00 - 11.30 Questions and Discussion
11.30 Conference Close

END OF CONFERENCE