Get Away From Your Computer

I know it’s been a while since I’ve been sat at mine writing blogs for you all.  It’s because you’ve all been keeping me astonishingly busy with a phenomenal volume of work (for which I am very grateful – thank you all very much!).  But a side effect is that I just can’t get back to blogging as much as I would like.

Hang on – you lot aren’t keeping me occupied just so I don’t put up posts on here, are you?

So it’s an odd thing for me to get back to blogging and the first thing I say is ‘get away from your computer’.  Why would I say that?

Well there are some great seminars going on that I think you should know about.  And if you’re very unlucky you’ll bump into me at them too.

On a non-planning theme, the Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law.  This isn’t happening until 29th April 2014 (which gives you plenty of time to book) and is about exploring the way that information is used and shared in today’s society, the challenges of the assessment of risk, the impact on privacy, the law’s response and the way that a multi-disciplinary approach can facilitate solutions.

In a planning vein a veritable selection box (well, it is nearly Christmas.  I can tell.  There are easter eggs in the supermarkets):

• 4th November 2013 – the Network for Planning Enforcement (NAPE) conference (Gateshead).  Come and join my planning enforcement prosecutions workshop – we’ll be covering everything prosecution-related including evidence gathering, taking witness statements, PACE interviews, continuity, rules on hearsay in criminal proceedings and giving evidence effectively.  I might even throw in a bit on confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

• 5th November 2013 – Assets of Community Value, Town and Village Greens and Rights of Way (York).  12 College Place puts on a whole day of land law!  Put up with me as compere for the day, meet my senior clerk and hear fantastic seminars from three members of Chambers.  Why not pop along and see what our land law team can offer?

• 8th November 2013 – What’s New This Week? (Southampton).  Join me for 2hrs 30mins of non-stop recent developments in permitted development.  Sounds great, doesn’t it?  Well it is!  So great that not only did it sell out within six days of being announced, but I’ve added another date – see below.

• 9th December 2013 – added date due to the overwhelming demand for What’s New This Week? (Southampton).  This is now nearly sold out too – within 24 hours of being advertised!  You lot are insatiable.

• 12th December 2013 – a third date added due to demand for What’s New This Week? (Southampton).  Who doesn’t like a bit of Permitted Development?

So in the immortal words from a favourite television programme of my youth – why don’t you switch off your TV set and do something less boring instead?  Come and say hello!

(I can’t guarantee prizes will be available for knowing the name of the TV show that the above line comes from, but knowing the answer is obviously an indicator that you have great taste in children’s television of a certain era).

Scott