About this webinar

Presented by Sheila Holden (recently retired Planning Inspector), this webinar will cover how the 2024 National Planning Policy Framework’s new vision-led approach to transport planning affects development proposals.

The session will cover:

• the difference between addressing transport and accessibility matters with the more traditional approach of assessing highway safety and capacity issues
• how the new transport hierarchy affects development proposals
• strategies for effective collaboration between planners and highway engineers
• methods to reduce car dependence through thoughtful location and design
• practical approaches to support active travel and public transport, reducing car dependence

The session will be based on a webinar previously delivered by Sheila Holden on behalf of the Planning Inspectorate.

Why attend?

• Free to CIHT Members 
• Excellent CPD opportunity 
• Opportunity to learn about vision-led planning and the importance of sustainable locations in development planning. 
• Interactive Q&A with industry experts 

Who is this webinar for?

This webinar is open to all CIHT members, CIHT partner employees, BCoE members and non-members. This masterclass is free for all CIHT and BCoE members to attend and is charged for CIHT Partner Employees and non-members.  

Speaker

Sheila Holden, OBE FCIHT

Sheila Holden OBE recently retired after a career in highway, transport and planning that spanned nearly 50 years.  As a planning inspector since 2016 she determined a wide range of appeals and was involved in training other inspectors and providing advice on addressing highways and transport matters in their decision making.  Just before her retirement Sheila delivered a public webinar on behalf of the Planning Inspectorate on the issue of sustainable locations on which this webinar is based.

Prior to her work with the Inspectorate Sheila worked in local government for 30 years during which time she held senior positions at East Sussex County Council, Brighton and Hove City Council (Assistant Director) and the Royal Borough of .Windsor and Maidenhead (Director of Environment). Throughout this period she was involved in policy development and delivery of transport schemes, where her passion for integration of planning and transport played a major role in many projects. She led the planning team in securing the return of Brighton & Hove Albion to the city after the sale of the Goldstone ground and oversaw the decriminalisation of parking. After leaving local government Sheila was a consultant for 10 years working alongside others advising local authorities on local plans, service improvements and sustainable transport; she also co-authored the DfT’s travel plan guidance. During this period she also became a non-salaried planning inspector.

Sheila has been a Fellow of CIHT since 1994, and has been involved with the SE branch and served on  CIHT’s Council and several boards before being its first woman president in 2013/14. She was awarded the OBE for services to transport planning in 1996.