Pre-Planning Prevents Poor Performance

Tue Feb 17 2026 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+00:00

Knight & Garter | Leicester

RIBA East Midlands
Publisher/HostRIBA East Midlands
Pre-Planning Prevents Poor Performance
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Gather with LCC planners to learn how to make your next application clear and useful
About this Event

Join Grant Butterworth, head of LCC Planning, for this informative session, where he will present on the following topics, before hosting a Q&A sessions designed to make sure that planners and architects are speaking the same language to each other. He'll go through current best practice andoutline how their improvement plan will impact architects.

You'll be shown the journey of an application; "how not to do it", and the benefits of engaging with the pre-approval process.

  • Working together: LCC Planning Department plans for 2026
  • Planning applications/performance/Improvement programme
  • Update & discussion on Government Policy changes
  • NPPF consultation
  • Planning and Infrastructure Bill
  • Spatial Development Strategies New Planning Cttee role/national Scheme of Delegation

We'll get together in the Knight and Garter basement events space to get all your burning planning questions cleared up. Architects will be encouraged to share their "view from the drawing board" in order to foster more open and effective ways of working.

The evening includes a welcome drink, provided by the Leicestershire and Rutland Society of Architects, and will give architects and local planners an opportunity to mingle with and better understand one another.

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Knight & Garter, 14 Hotel Street, Leicester, United Kingdom

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