2022 Events

PAS events held in 2022

In this section:

Biodiversity Net Gain 2022 consultation events

Spring 2022

Development Management Challenge Toolkit

March 2022

Design & Decision Making; daring to say no: Turning down poor applications for development on design grounds. An Office for Place/PAS event.

Wed, 25 May 2022

Conservation covenants with Defra and Natural England, June 2022

PAS hosted two events on conservation covenants for local authorities in June 2022. Defra provided an overview of conservation covenants, whilst Natural England ran through work they are undertaking to become a 'responsible body'.

PAS Conference 2022

Planning for a Better Environment session at PAS Heads of Planning Conference

We explored the role of the natural environment in place-making and the role of planners to fit the pieces together.

Changes to the NERC duty

Section 102 of the Environment Act 2021 strengthens the duty first set out in the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act ("the NERC Act"). We held some workshops to go through draft versions of guidance and a template for reporting.

Biodiversity Net Gain and Nature Recovery Autumn 2022 events

We ran a series of workshops for local authorities with a focus on biodiversity net gain and nature recovery from October through to December 2022.