William Wilson, Barrister, Wyeside Consulting Ltd will be speaking on ‘Environmental Law at the Crossroads’ at the AGM of Environmental Protection UK in Birmingham on 13 November 2019. The full programme for this event is set out below –
2019 EPUK CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
09.00 Registration, displays and exhibition plus refreshments
PLENARY SESSION
Session Chair: Christopher Fry, Chair, EPUK Board of Trustees
10.15 Welcome and Introductions
EPUK President
10.20 Keynote Address: Maximising Health Benefits of Environmental Protection, now, over the next decade and beyond
Gary Fuller, Kings College London
10.50 Questions and Discussion
11.00 Refreshment, Displays and Exhibition
PLENARY SESSION and Noise Breakout Session
11.30 The Environment Bill
Session Chair: Vice President, EPUK
11.35 The prospect for a strong and robust legal framework for the future
William Wilson, Barrister and Director of Wyeside Consulting Ltd
12.05 Making an Environment Bill that is fit for purpose
Katherine Neild, Client Earth
12.35 Discussion, Closing remarks
12.50 Introduction to Exhibitors
13.00 Lunch, Displays and Exhibition
PLENARY SESSION and Land Quality Breakout Session
14.15 Emerging Issues: Ultra-fine Particles, impacts and policy options
Session Chair: Vice President, EPUK
14.20 Ultra-fine Particles in the UK - An Overview
David Muir, Chair of Executive EPUK
14.40 Exposure to metal-rich, ultrafine particulate air pollution: a possible risk factor for neurodegenerative disease.
Professor Barbara A Maher, Centre for Environmental Magnetism & Palaeomagnetism
Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster
15.00 Policy Options for management of UfP
John Murlis
15.20 Discussion: elements of a UK policy response including opportunities through national programmes, CAZ and LAQM
15.30 Refreshments, displays and exhibitions
PLENARY SESSION
16.00 Challenges for 2020: the EPUK Response to the Environment Bill and feedback from Breakout Sessions
Session Chair: Vice President EPUK
16.05 EPUK Expectations of the Environment Bill: feedback on consultations within Policy Committees
Sarah Legge, Chair, EPUK Air Quality Policy Committee.
Feedback from Chairs of Noise and Land Quality Policy Committees
Questions and Discussion
16.40 Closing address
Delivering environmental protection: future roles for local authorities
Speaker TBC
16.55 Closing remarks- EPUK President
17.00 Close of 2019 National Conference
Exhibition and Displays. Light refreshments
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Noise
11.30 Introduction: Chair of Noise Policy Committee
11.35 Emerging issues in urban noise: drone noise – a new public health challenge in urban areas
Dr Antonio J. Torija Martinez, University of Salford
12.00 Assessing health impacts of exposure to noise
Speaker TBC
12.25 Update on Noise Policy: A Local Authority perspective
Speaker TBC
12.45 Close of Breakout Session and Meet the Exhibitors
Land Quality
14.15 Introduction: David Rudland, Chair of Land Quality Policy Committee
14.20 The power of a good survey: survey techniques below ground, standard land survey and remote sensing
Tom Ridgway, Lead Geospatial Surveyor, The Carto Group
14.45 Asbestos Risk in Ground Investigation: the latest UK industry good practice for intrusive ground investigation for compliance with the control of asbestos regulations 2012
Marian Markham, Jacobs
15.05 Enhancing geophysical investigations: recent advances in science and technology
Oliver Chrisp, Aecom
15.30 Close of Breakout Session, Refreshments, displays and exhibitions
For further information, please contact William Wilson, Barrister at info@wyesideconsulting.com, tel, +44(0)1225-730-407
To contact Environmental Protection UK –
EPUK Secretariat
Environmental Protection UK
info@environmental-protection.org.uk
07522 840860