Name
Panel Discussion: Clarity or Confusion? Aligning Local and National Plans
Date & Time
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Speakers
Rosie Pearson, Chairman & Co-Founder, Community Planning Alliance
Lawrence Slade, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Networks Association
David Watson, Principal, BFY Group
Alice Etheridge, Head of Strategic Spatial Energy Planning, NESO
Lawrence Slade, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Networks Association
David Watson, Principal, BFY Group
Alice Etheridge, Head of Strategic Spatial Energy Planning, NESO
Description
- To what extent is price cap volatility impacting risk management strategies on long-term business models?
- What strategies are needed to ensure AMP8 can deliver on PR24’s promises and set up AMP9 for success?
- To what extent should policymakers incentivise for anticipatory investment in RIIO-4 in industrial decarbonisation, housing growth and clean heat zones?
- How can we optimise Water Resource Management Plans to take a proactive approach to challenges and ensure water companies regularly forecast beyond 5-year cycles?
- Are RESPs proving to be successful enough in bringing together DNOs, council, developers and communities to achieve local development and environmental goals?
- How can we communicate planning on a local level and deliver meaningful local community impacts through LAEPs?
- How can we translate net zero targets to a local level?