Independent Consultants' Network Conference 2025
Programme
Wednesday 7 May 2025
2:20pm - 4:00pm Walking tour
The walking tour will start at the Library of Birmingham and conclude at Tap & Spile
6:30pm - 10pm Drinks reception
The Botanist Gas Street Basin
Thursday 8 May 2025
09:30am Registration
10:00am Welcome
10:15am PINS
11:00am Networking break
11:15am Kings Chamber Legal update
12:00pm Panel Discussion
12:15pm Networking lunch
01:15pm Biodiversity Net Gain
02:00pm AI Tools for Planners
02:45pm Networking break
03:00pm 200 years of planning
04:00pm Chairman's round up
04:15pm Event close
Find out more about the 2025 Independent Consultants' Network Conference
Thanks to our sponsors

Landstack
Event Sponsor

Landstack
Event Sponsor
At Landstack, our mission is to simplify everything land and planning. With deep roots in land development and a family-run legacy, we combine generations of expertise with the most reliable and comprehensive data in the industry—trusted and used by market leaders such as Taylor Wimpey, Lichfields and Richborough. Backed by a dedicated customer success team, we provide innovative tools, trusted insights, and unparalleled service to help you achieve your land goals.

Kings Chambers
Event sponsor

Kings Chambers
Event sponsor
Kings Chambers is a leading set of civil barristers operating out of Chambers in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. Ranked one of the country’s leading sets, providing barristers with the highest reputation in their fields of expertise.
Through our membership with the Argyll Club we are able to host meetings at their prestigious conference facilities within close proximity to Covent Garden.
Kings Chambers was founded in Manchester in 1946, with premises in Leeds opening in 1996 and Birmingham in 2012. The set now comprises more than 120 barristers including 19 King’s Counsel and combines advisory work with litigation and advocacy services. Our Members regularly appear in courts and tribunals across the country and frequently appear in leading cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

Howden
Event sponsor

Howden
Event sponsor
At Howden, we pride ourselves on being a broker with a difference, combining the knowledge of a specialist broker, the agility of a start-up, and the scale and experience of an established international business. Since the beginning, our founders wanted Howden to be a business we all feel proud of so from individual volunteering to product innovation, we are working to make a positive impact.
We have over 28 years of experience and expertise in providing Professional Indemnity Insurance solutions for Planning Consultants and provide risk management advice and broking services to clients ranging from sole traders through to large multi-office firms.

JMW Solicitors
Event Sponsor

JMW Solicitors
Event Sponsor
JMW is an award-winning full-service law firm established over 40 years ago. We are renowned throughout the UK for our expertise in achieving positive outcomes for our clients, both businesses and individuals.
Client excellence is at the heart of our firm: no matter who you are, where you live or what legal service you require, we have the depth and breadth of experience to deliver solutions that work for you. We are the legal experts you need in your corner.

Planning Portal
Drinks reception sponsor

Planning Portal
Drinks reception sponsor
Planning Portal is the national planning application service for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Planning Portal has been revolutionising the planning process for both public and private sector stakeholders for more than twenty years. Our mission is to continue and build on this, transforming planning and building. By working in partnership with every local authority and focusing on delivering a quality service to our customers, we will continue to be the national home of planning and building regulations information and the national planning application service.
Planning Portal is powered by TerraQuest. At TerraQuest, we envision a world where optimised technology and data solutions allow the built environment to thrive for the benefit of our communities and our planet. With over 50 years of expertise in land referencing, we support major national infrastructure projects through our innovative, data-driven software.