This year's Conference is being held on Monday 25th November in Birmingham.

Please find attached the ALGE Conference programme and booking forms.

The theme of this year’s conference is: “European Directives – What have they ever done for us?” It is set to be a really useful and interesting conference and we hope you can attend.

We will be promoting the conference to non ALGE members – please circulate the conference programme to your colleagues.

Cost:

ALGE Member: £75

Non ALGE Member: £125

Concessions: £100

Bookings are open to ALGE members from the 8th August and non ALGE members from the 18th September

The Programme for the day can be seen below, to book a place please email Iain Boulton (iboulton@lambeth.gov.uk)

9.30 Registration

10.00 Introduction and welcome from ALGE Chair Liz Milne, Kent County Council

10.10 Ecological competence and capacity in local government (results of ALGE’s national survey) Mike Oxford ALGE Project Officer

10.40 How we should be implementing the Habitat Regulations – post 2012 Defra Review David Tyldesley

11.15 Tea and coffee break

11.45 The Habitats Directive: a lawyers perspective - A full Q&A session with a short presentation to start David Graham (Lawyer in Chambers at the Francis Taylor Building in Central London)

12.45 LUNCH

13.30 ALGE AGM

14.00 Effective EIA and EcIA and Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) Mike Dean (running CIEEM’s EIA Masterclasses)

14.35 The Water Framework Directive – what it means in practice for local authorities Lyn Jenkins Environment Agency – responsible for WFD implementation nationally

15.10 Dealing with EPS in the forward planning process – you know it makes sense! Speaker TBC

15.45 Plenary session (identification of key issues from the day and future priorities for ALGE)

16.00 ALGE Chair’s remarks and close

16.15 Finish