Lunch & Learn Webinar- Highway Development Control – Why Bother?

Chris Bond I.Eng FICE from North Northants Council is running a Teams based simple and general introduction to Highway Development Control 25th November 2025.  This session is for anyone who is new or relatively new to the disciplines of providing highway advice to planning authorities, highway adoptions or highway agreements.

Chris will touch on the role of the local highway authority within the planning system, how applications can be assessed both big and small.  He will also give a brief overview on the issues and mechanisms associated with highway adoption and highway agreements required to facilitate developments.  The intention is to give a broad flavour for those just starting out as to what we do and why we do what we do.  It is also intended to provide a wider awareness of the roles and functions of the highway authority for those that may only deal with parts of the process, be that providing highway advice or processing highway adoptions or agreements so that there can be a greater appreciation of how the system is supposed to work, and how functions overlap and interact to facilitate development.  There will be an initial presentation followed by an opportunity for some Q&A.

For those that don’t know Chris, he has now been in local Government for over 38 years with Northamptonshire. Whilst he started as a highway designer responsible for the design of, or elements of, major and minor highway improvements and bypasses, he moved into the planning advice side in 1996 and now manages North Northamptonshire Council’s ‘Development Liaison’ Services.  He has spoken at local, regional, and national level on highway DC matters including to the Law Society and RoSPA as well as contributing to the DfT’s national guidance on highway adoptions. He is currently chair of MHA+’s Development Management Service Improvement Group.

If you would like to join this session, please contact kay.a.smith@leics.gov.uk