Planning & Infrastructure Forum.
Exchanging information on planning policy, construction and regeneration — and steering the Chamber's representations on those matters.
What this forum covers.
Recent topics have included the Joint Local Plan for Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, Local Plans for Stafford Borough and the NPPF, plus updates on developments in planning law.
Local Plans
Reading and responding to the Local Plans that decide where employment land goes for the next fifteen years.
Regeneration
Town centre and brownfield schemes across the county — what is moving, what is stuck and why.
Planning law
Updates on national policy and case law, and what they change for members trying to build or expand.
Forum ChairMichael RidgwayManaging Director, Ridgway Structural
When it meets
Quarterly at Commerce House, with dates published in the event calendar. Members attend free — just book a place.
Where it goes
Issues raised here go to the Chambers' Council, then to the Board and on to the British Chambers of Commerce.
The next four meetings.
Members attend free — book a place through the event calendar.
New meeting dates will be added here.
Minutes.
Minutes will be added after meetings.
Useful things from the forum.
Resources from this forum will appear here.