It's Conference
Season!
Everyone is welcome at Morecambe Bay Partnership's Conference.
This will be held on Saturday 8 October, 2011 from 10 am to 4 pm at the
Coronation Hall in
Ulverston.
It's a cracking programme with
internationally renowned landscape
expert Adrian
Phillips and the genuine,
professional National Grid engineers who need
to
find a way to reach
Sellafield either via an offshore connection or
pylons, perhaps
of the very
new designs.
Please register
on-line
or you can
send apologies here.
This year's the programme
will
-
Celebrate our
successful Heritage Lottery Fund award for our
'Headlands to Headspace'
Landscape Partnership Scheme and explore
what this means,
-
discuss with the
National Grid team the plans to secure a grid
connection to Sellafield and hear from them on
the energy challenge, grid technologies and the
planning process underway,
-
provide an overview
of other important developments around our
coast.
We are particularly pleased
that National Grid have agreed to speak and discuss these important
developments. This is an opportunity to understand
how the Grid propose
to secure a new grid connection
at Sellafield, and the timing of the future
consultation.
Adrian Phillips
formerly headed the Countryside Commission. He
now operates as an adviser to the Heritage Lottery
Fund and is on the board of several national
conservation, countryside and heritage bodies,
including the National Trust and the Woodland Trust.
Draft Programme:
10:00 Registration
& coffee
10:40 Welcome –
Chair Captain Graham MacLean
10:50
Morecambe Bay News, Susannah Bleakley, Morecambe
Bay Partnership
·
Review of past
year’s activities
·
Round-up of other
Morecambe
Bay projects
·
Lottery Success - Headlands to Headspace Landscape
Partnership Scheme
11.20 Druridge Bay
Landscape Partnership – Steve Scoffin,
Northumberland Wildlife Trust
11.50
The Energy Challenge –
Peter Fendley, National Grid.
12.30 Questions
12.50 Introduction
to the workshops (being held after lunch)
13.00 Lunch, tea
and coffee
14.05 Morecambe Bay
Partnership AGM & Business Meeting (optional)
14.20 Landscape
matters – Adrian Phillips, Board member National
Trust
14.50 Questions
15.00 3 parallel
workshops
Natural Environment ~ review of new initiatives –
Lucy Barron, Arnside Silverdale AONB
Access – Jim Trotman, Furness Community Rail
Partnership
Historic
Coastal Zone Assessment, Dr Gillian Eadie,
Archaeological Research Services
15.40 Coffee and
network – close at 4pm.
Donations
We know money is tight for everyone and yet we hope
to cover our costs. We suggest a £10 donation
per person to help towards lunch and other cost.
Please pay on the day.
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