What will Dumfries and Galloway look like in 2035?
Due to High Demand there are only a few spaces left BOOK NOW! To Avoid dissapointmentYou are invited to a Crichton Institute Panel Discussion on: What Dumfries and Galloway will look like in 2035?
This will take place on Wednesday 6th May at Douglas Arms Hotel Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway from 7 – 9pm
We are seeking to have a visionary debate about future land uses in Dumfries and Galloway involving a range of different stakeholders. The event will focus on a number of key questions:
• What are the main current land use pressures in Dumfries and Galloway? Are the same pressures likely to exist over the next 20 years to 2035? What, if any, new pressures are likely to emerge?
• What do you want the region to look like in 2035?
•How can the need for functional local planning documents be balanced with strategic, visionary thinking and decision-making at local, regional and national levels?
• How can the full range of appropriate stakeholders be involved in local/regional decision-making about land use in the region?
• Are there any issues that are unique to Dumfries and Galloway, or are there many shared issues across the South of Scotland? How can these unique/shared issues best be tackled?
• What key messages do you wish to feed into the national Cross Party Group meeting on this topic?
The key messages from the event will be reported at the May meeting of the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Rural Policy, entitled ‘What should Scotland look like in 2035?’. SRUC’s Rural Policy Centre directs the Crichton Institute’s Policy Function and provides the Secretariat for this Cross Party Group.
The local event gives people from different organisations, sectors, and interests across the Dumfries and Galloway region the chance to have their voices heard and to inform discussion at national level on this important issue. Attendees are invited to submit questions in advance to a panel of individuals working in this area. The event will be chaired by Dr Sarah Skerratt, Co-Director of the Institute’s Policy Function. Each panel member will be given five minutes to introduce themselves and provide some key points to kick start discussions and then the floor will be open to everyone for questions and comments.
Confirmed panel members are:
John Thomson, Southern Uplands Partnership An historian and economist by training, land use issues have been a constant theme in John’s career. After grappling with the complexities of the CAP during his early years in the Treasury, he worked on town and country planning policy in both England and Scotland before spending almost twenty years handling many aspects of land management and development as a Director in Scottish Natural Heritage. He is currently the Convenor of Scotland’s National Access Forum and of the Southern Uplands Partnership. He and his wife also run a small herd of Galloway cattle.
Nick Jennings, Upper Eskdale Development Group Nicholas is a social entrepreneur who helps to create networks of support and opportunity for people who have problems accessing these. He has worked in mental health, community care and education. Recently he helped to establish the Upper Eskdale Development Group, a community led initiative, which is striving to reinvigorate a remote upland community experiencing the challenges of a rapidly ageing population and lack of social, welfare and economic opportunities for young and old. Last year UEDG opened its £1.5 million Community Hub in the former primary school in Eskdalemuir.
Derek Robeson, Integrated Land & Water Management- Tweed Forum Derek is a Borderer who has been working in the field of land management advisory provision for over 22 years. Derek works for Tweed Forum and is assisting Scottish Borders Council with Stakeholder Engagement, as part of the Scottish Borders Land Use Strategy pilot. Derek spent 15 years as a Senior Conservation Advisor with Borders Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group. He then went on to work with Scotland’s Rural College as a Conservation Consultant. Derek has broad range of knowledge of land management issues and works closely with the local farming community on many land, water, woodland & wildlife management projects which deliver environmental enhancement.
Tim Liddon – Tilhill Tim studied 4 years at Aberdeen University and graduated with an Honours degree in Forestry, starting work for Tilhill Forestry in 1980. In 2001 the family moved back to Scotland and settled in Lockerbie, where he now manages Tilhill’s forestry business in Scotland. Work is busy for Tim with increasing timber production, climate change, the need for significant new planting, forest planning & certification as well as developing a sustainable forestry workforce. Tim is now also a director of the Sitka spruce breeding cooperative – a public/private not for profit partnership.
Steve Rogers (or a colleague) from D&G Council Planning Dept Steve is the Council's Head of Planning and Regulatory Services, his remit covers land use planning, building standards, environmental health and trading standards. Since joining Dumfries and Galloway over 5 years ago he has been the lead officer for all Planning related matters within the Council including the preparation of the Local Development Plan which was adopted in September 2014. This sets out a 20 year vision for the future development of the region. Prior to this Steve held senior positions at East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire Councils as well as a spell in the private sector.
Dr Dave Roberts is Head of SRUC Dairy Research Centre, Crichton Royal Farm Dumfries and Regional Dean which includes responsibilities at Barony Campus. Dave is a Nuffield Farming Scholar and a Fellow of Royal Agricultural Societies. The research work at Crichton includes the evaluation of future dairy farming systems; development of grassland management systems and soil management. Recent publications have included a review of dairy farm management across the UK which demonstrates the trend to increasing herd sizes and more cows kept indoors. In addition to SRUC work he is a Director of LEAF (Linking Farming and the Environment) and Vice Chairman of the organising committee for the International Farm Management Congress to be held in Edinburgh in 2017.
This event is free and open to all, if you would like to attend, please register on the Eventbrite page using the following link to enable us to monitor numbers Eventbrite
In order to ensure that the panel can fully address your questions on the night, please email them in advance to Katie Nairn at the following address: Katie.nairn@glasgow.ac.uk.
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