Parks

Parks workshop agenda

Thursday 1 December 2016 – Hilton Hotel Blackpool   

Sponsored by CAMMS

Glyphosate – friend or foe? - Can local authorities really afford the alternatives?

• The glyphosate debate – what are the alternatives?
• Integrated weed control strategies

Speaker Debbie Sutton, Amenities Manager, Highlands Council

Redefining the role of the Parks Manager

• The historical role of the Parks Manager
• Identifying and meeting new demands
• Developing stakeholder engagement
• What will future parks managers look like?

Speaker: Tim Ward-Dutton, Open Spaces Manager, Halton Borough Council

Generating income in a Parks Environment.

• What can we offer?
• Developing a commercial approach
• Case studies

Speaker: Paul Naylor, Direct Services Manager, Eastleigh Borough Council.

Responses to the National Parks Inquiry

• What messages are coming out?
• Making the provision of parks a statutory duty – how realistic is this?
• Measuring the quality of our parks assets.

Speakers; Wayne Priestley and Ian Jones, APSE

About the workshop: Who can attend?

The workshop for parks is a working group within the Performance Networks seminar providing an opportunity to explore emerging data trends, service specific issues and any amendments or additions to the APSE Performance Networks data collection and benchmarking  arrangements for parks services.

To attend the workshop you must be a delegate to the Performance networks seminar.

Local councils that do not yet subscribe to APSE Performance Networks are welcome to attend as non-member delegates to learn how parks data benchmarking can help improve your local services. The different booking options are available on line. You will not be charged at the point of booking online but will be invoiced in the usual way.

Book Here