Course focus

The 2nd Annual Hardwicke Social Housing Conference

Date:
27 October 2010
Venue:
ETC Venues - Prospero House, London
CPD:
5.5

Training programmes

Highways & Development

This course is essential to all who are interested in the development process including Highways Engineers, Planning Officers, Surveyors and Lawyers.

This course will help you to:

  • Understand the key planning concepts that relate to highways matters
  • Understand the different types of highway agreements and key practical and drafting points 
  • Learn from the expert Highways and Planning solicitor and popular trainer, Tom Graham

This course will cover:

  • Planning applications: Overview of key planning procedures; identification of highway issues; highway matters as material considerations
  • Planning conditions: How they can cover highways matters.“Grampian Type conditions”. When are conditions defective?
  • The Advance Payments Code: A brief overview
  • Section 38 agreements: What do they do?  Problem areas. Drafting tips. Bonding agreements. The “dedication” and “adoption” of highways
  • Section 278 agreements: Often talked about but rarely understood. What do they cover? What are the Highway Authority’s obligations? The “Powergen” case. What is the inherent conflict between developer and the Highway Authority and how can it be managed? 
  • Section 106 agreements: How can they cover highways issues? What are the key considerations?   
  • Community Infrastructure Levy: an outline
  • Workplace Parking Levy: an outline 

" Enjoyable, enlightening and highway law de-mystifying "

Jamie Parsons, Civil Agency Ltd

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