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Lessons for the Future: Could growth be planned, managed and delivered differently in Ashford?

Join the AIA Research Project to explore sustainable development opportunities and utility service challenges in Ashford. Learn about uniting utilities for a carbon-reduced future and effective decision-making. Interactive sessions with experts from top universities.

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Lessons for the Future: Could growth be planned, managed and delivered differently in Ashford?

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  1. Thursday, 24th February, 2011, The Stour Leisure Centre, Ashford Ashford Integrated Alternatives (AIA) Research Project Lessons for the Future: Could growth be planned, managed and delivered differently in Ashford?

  2. Thursday, 24th February, 2011, The Stour Leisure Centre, Ashford Welcome & Introduction Professor David Butler AIA Project Director, University of Exeter

  3. Aim To outline the opportunities and challenges for sustainable development and utility service provision in Ashford and together discuss potential ways forward for the future.

  4. The project • 2-year project funded by Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council • Multi-disciplinary, multi-institution team: • University of Exeter • Cranfield University • University of Surrey • University of Bradford • Imperial College London

  5. Key question & themes • How can the delivery, or potential co-delivery of utilities contribute to a more sustainable and hence a greatly carbon - reduced future? • Decision making and the planning process, • The scale and value of uniting utilities, • Utility delivery processes, • Benefits of combined/integrated utility interventions.

  6. The process Interactively: • observing progress, • conducting interviews, • identifying planning pathways, • building scenarios, • making comparisons. To find the potential for: • Ashford’s integrated alternatives!

  7. The Scale & Value of Uniting Utilities • Outlines the potential water-energy technology combinations applicable for Ashford, • Discusses issues of technical feasibility, implementation and stakeholder engagement. • Sarah Ward – University of Exeter & Sandip Deshmukh –University of Surrey

  8. Encouraging Collective Action • Discusses outcomes from research into the pilot ‘Savings at Home’ combined water and energy retrofit intervention, • Provides insight into the potential acceptability of similar schemes. • Rachel Macrorie –University of Bradford

  9. Uniting Utilities: Organisationally Practical? • Outlines managerial challenges presented by uniting water and energy utilities, • Proposes new approaches to implementation beginning in the master planning phase. • Andy Davies, Imperial College London

  10. Effective Decision-making: Toward Adaptive & Adapted Planning • Discusses barriers, challenges and influences which have affected the policy framing and delivery of sustainability in Ashford, • Explores how these factors might be managed more effectively in future planning processes. • Melanie Muro, Cranfield University

  11. Programme • 2.00 – 2.15 Welcome & Introduction , David Butler • 2.15 – 2.30 The Scale & Value of Uniting Utilities Sarah Ward & Sandip Deshmukh • 2.30 – 2.45 Encouraging Collective ActionRachel Macrorie • 2.45 – 3.00 Uniting Utilities: Organisationally Practical? Jens Roehrich • 3.00 – 3.15 Effective Decision-Making: Toward Adaptive & Adapted Planning Melanie Muro • 3.15 – 3.45 Lessons for the FutureResponse from Ashford & discussion • 3.45 – 4.00 Where do we go from here? Concluding remarks, David

  12. Thursday, 24th February, 2011, The Stour Leisure Centre, Ashford Ashford Integrated Alternatives (AIA) Research Project Lessons for the Future: Could growth be planned, managed and delivered differently in Ashford?

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