Planning Aid, Zero Waste 2012

A Planning Aid for Scotland Event

Can We Cope With Zero Waste?

Planning our way to a zero waste future 1 March 2012 Apex International Hotel, Edinburgh

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Richard Lochhead MSP

Iain Gulland

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment, Scottish Government

Director, Zero Waste Scotland

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Can We Cope With Zero Waste?

About Planning Aid for Scotland

Session 1:

Planning Aid for Scotland (PAS) is an independent organisation, working across Scotland to help people shape their communities and improve the way people engage with the planning system. Planning is a vital public service and one in which everyone should be able to participate. PAS is here to provide people with the skills and information to engage positively with planning.

Session one sets out the reasons behind the Scottish Government’s ambitious targets and zero waste agenda. The Zero Waste Plan identifies the land-use planning system as a key delivery mechanism for achieving Scotland’s waste objectives and how the Plan is rolled out on the ground will play an important part in determining the success of the zero waste agenda.

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Session 2

The Scottish Government is working to significantly reduce the amount of waste Scotland sends to landfill. However, this will require a change in attitudes towards waste – from the amount we generate, to how and where we process it. How we deal with Scotland’s waste is not a question to be answered tomorrow: it is a crucial question for today.

Session two explores the important issues of community engagement and decision-making in waste planning. The session focuses on the importance of inclusiveness in the decisionmaking process, effective engagement between all parties and how we can actively engage young people in decisions about the built environment.

The land-use planning system has a key role to play in helping Scotland become a ‘Zero Waste’ country. However, to be successful, the planning system needs the active involvement of people across Scotland in this often controversial topic: how and where should we process our waste?

This full-day conference hosted by Planning Aid for Scotland will explore the key challenges ahead for implementing the Scottish Government’s Zero Waste Plan and consider how they will affect you - in your work as a built environment or waste professional, elected member, or in your community.

Planning for Zero Waste: The vision

Engaging with Waste: Opportunities for better engagement

Session 3:

National Problem, Local Solutions: What’s happening on the ground?

If waste is a national challenge, then the Zero Waste Plan demands that the solutions be found at a local level. Session three, the first of the afternoon’s panel sessions looks at the different approaches being taken across Scotland, considering how the Scottish Government’s Zero Waste Plan is being implemented on the ground.

Session 4:

Opportunities from Waste: Beyond regulation to innovation Session 4, the second of the day’s panel sessions, focuses on the potential benefits from waste.

Can investment in waste infrastructure generate economic opportunities? Can communities also gain from waste infrastructure, for example through community benefit schemes? This final panel session will consider the range of potential benefits associated with waste planning.

Agenda

1 March 2012 Apex International Hotel, Edinburgh

09.30 Registration and refreshments

Session 1:

Session 3:

Planning for Zero Waste: The vision

National Problem, Local Solutions: What’s happening on the ground?

10.00 Welcome – Chair, Keith Aitken 10.10 Opening Keynote address Richard Lochhead MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment 10.30 Q&A with Richard Lochhead MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment 10.35 Achieving a Zero Waste Scotland Iain Gulland, Director of Zero Waste Scotland 10.55 Q&A with Iain Gulland, Director of Zero Waste Scotland

13:30 Panel discussion and Q&A • Prof James Curran, Chief Executive, SEPA • Dr Maggie Bochel, Head of Planning and Sustainable Development, Aberdeen City Council • Gordon Watson, Director of Planning and Rural Development, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park • Malcolm McArdle, Alloa Community Enterprises ACE • Ian Angus, Strategic Development Plan Manager, SESplan 14.30 Break

11.10 Break

Session 4:

Session 2:

Engaging with Waste: Opportunities for better engagement 11.30 Engaging minds in the great waste debate Petra Biberbach, Chief Executive, PAS & Stephanie Simpson – PAS Youth Ambassador & Community Councillor 12.00 Getting a rational debate Donald Anderson, Director, PPS 12.15 Planning for waste John Smith, Director, CASA Planning and Environment

Opportunities from Waste: Beyond regulation to innovation 15.00 Panel discussion and Q&A • Alan Pollock, Director, RPS Group • Lori McElroy, SUST. Programme Director, A+DS • Prof Greg Lloyd, Head of School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster • Scottish Renewables – TBC 16.00 Closing address by Chair 16.15 Close of conference

12.30 Lunch

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Can We Cope With Zero Waste?

Registration

To book your place at this event, complete the form below and return it using the details at the bottom of the page. A member of the Planning Aid for Scotland team will then be in touch to confirm your booking.

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Conference fees Please tick Private sector delegate £190 + VAT Voluntary and public sectors delegate £150 + VAT PAS Volunteers and Friends of PAS £80 + VAT For bookings for community groups or organisations, please contact Mark Armstrong for further information mark@planningaidscotland.org.uk or telephone 0131 220 9730 Booking conditions Payment must be made in advance. Cancellations within 30 days incur full charge, prior to 30 days 50% charge will apply. Substitutions can be made free of charge.

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