Eat, Sleep, Plan, Repeat!
The 53rd Oxford Conference
19 – 21 September 2025
The 53rd Oxford Conference
Eat, Sleep, Plan, Repeat!
Eat, Sleep, Plan, Repeat!
Planning large-scale communities
It has been a dizzying 12 months in planning. The new Labour government has brought forward and announced a raft of new legislation, policy and guidance and it has been a busy time in the Courts. The conference title - Eat, Sleep, Plan, Repeat - echoes the frenetic pace of activity and the onus on the planning system to deliver economic growth and meet the target (in England) of 1.5 million homes during this parliament.
Rachel Fisher will cover 'Eat' and the relationship or disconnect between our planning system and other land uses such as food production. Peter Freeman CBE and James Maurici KC will address where a growing population will 'Sleep' and how to deliver all the homes we need. Catriona Riddell, Nicholle Kingsley, Simon Berkeley, James Scott will tell us how to 'Plan' better and faster. And the ever-popular legal update will 'Repeat' with Constanze Bell.
The conference papers will provide technical and practical knowledge to help us all in our day to day work across:
- Boosting growth
- Housing delivery
- Strategic planning
- Development plans
- Land use and planning
- Legal strategies for consents
- Planning large-scale communities
- Legal update
After last year's sell out conference we advise to book early and take advantage of the discounted early bird fee.
2025 Programme
- 15:30–16:00
Arrival, registration, and tea
- 16:00–18:00
Newcomer’s welcome tea with organising committee
- 18:00–19:00
Drinks reception
- 19:00
Informal dinner
chair
Robert Evanskeynote speaker
Peter Freeman CBE
2025 Speakers
2025 Speakers
Constanze Bell
Constanze has a broad town and country planning law practice acting for developers, local planning authorities and local action groups in planning inquiries and High Court challenges. She also has a busy advisory practice. Particular areas of expertise include: the implementation of planning permissions; interpreting and amending planning permissions and securing permission for ‘eco-houses’.
She is recognised in Chambers & Partners 2024 for her planning law expertise and is ranked as a ‘leading junior’ in regulatory and licensing law in ‘Legal 500’. In 2024 Constanze was the ‘Highest Rated Planning Juniors under 35’ (2024 Planning Resource Planning Law survey).
She is Assistant Editor of the third edition of Patterson and Karim on Judicial Review and a Specialist Contributor to the judicial review chapter to Bullen & Leake (First Supplement, 19th Edition). She writes for the quarterly Encyclopaedia of Local Government Law Bulletin.
Constanze was a founding member of the ‘Women in Planning’ network’s Yorkshire branch. She was recognised as a ‘Woman of Influence’ in The Planner magazine’s 2022 survey and was a member of the judging panel for the 2023 survey.
Before coming to the bar Constanze worked in the NGO sector for ‘Control Arms’, a coalition of NGOs working to secure a human-rights orientated Arms Trade Treaty and attended the July 2012 Arms Trade Treaty Diplomatic Conference and negotiations at the UN in New York. Constanze retains an active interest in human rights law and, in particular, in planning, regulatory and environmental cases involving human rights issues.
