East Anglian Planning and Biodiversity Seminar Thursday 22nd November 2018
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES and PRESENTATION SUMMARIES An Ecologist’s Epiphany - After All This Time, Why Do We Still Not Get What We Want? Biography Mike has been working in the planning system for over 25 years. He spent 12 years as an ecologist in local government and for the last 16 years has been working as a consultant largely with public sector clients, and during that time he has also been part time project officer for the Association of Local Government Ecologists. He has always had a particular interest in exploring how the planning system can do the best it can in delivering benefits and gains for biodiversity … be they at the landscape scale or very modest improvements with small schemes. Mike also believes that the system can do far better and that we often only scratch the surface compared to the potential gains that could be achieved if all of the parts of the process operated smoothly together. Presentation summary This session will provide a light hearted examination of why we don’t always get the biodiversity mitigation or enhancements we have agreed to or expect from the planning and development process. The session will also consider whether the reasons for this are an inevitable outcome of human interaction and communication (i.e. whether we are doomed to failure!!), or whether we can make subtle but important tweaks in the way we approach things that might result is better outcomes. Mike will present some practical
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Mike Oxford, ALGE