Lessons for the Future: Could growth be planned,

managed and delivered differently in Ashford?

Thursday, 24th February, 2011,

The Stour Leisure Centre, Ashford

Ashford Integrated Alternatives (AIA) Research Project

Welcome & Introduction

Thursday, 24th February, 2011,

The Stour Leisure Centre, Ashford

Professor David ButlerAIA Project Director, University of

Exeter

To outline the opportunities and challenges for sustainable

development and utility service provision in Ashford and together discuss potential ways forward for

the future.

Aim

• 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

The project

• 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.

Key question & themes

Interactively:

• observing progress,

• conducting interviews,

• identifying planning pathways,

• building scenarios,

• making comparisons.

To find the potential for:

• Ashford’s integrated alternatives!

The process

• 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

The Scale & Value of Uniting Utilities

• 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

Encouraging Collective Action

• 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

Uniting Utilities: Organisationally Practical?

• 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

Effective Decision-making: Toward Adaptive & Adapted Planning

• 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 Action Rachel

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 Future Response from

Ashford & discussion• 3.45 – 4.00 Where do we go from here? Concluding

remarks, David

Programme

Lessons for the Future: Could growth be planned,

managed and delivered differently in Ashford?

Thursday, 24th February, 2011,

The Stour Leisure Centre, Ashford

Ashford Integrated Alternatives (AIA) Research Project