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‘Revitalising and Valuing Brownfield Spaces: Sustainable Land Redevelopment and Biodiversity’CIEEM 2025 Wales Conference 16 September 2025 – Online |
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SESSION 1 Chair: Harriet Webb CIEEM, CEcol, CEnv (CIEEM Vice President Wales) |
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| 9:30 | Welcome and Introduction – Harriet Webb CIEEM, CEcol, CEnv (CIEEM Vice President Wales) |
| 9:35 | Opening Address – Huw Irranca-Davies, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs |
| 09:45 | Net Benefit for Biodiversity – An emerging planning tool to restore biodiversity on previously developed land and improve ecosystem resilience – Craig Llewellyn CEcol MCIEEM CSJK, Atkins Réalis |
| 10:10 | Managing unexploded ordnance and ecology – a balanced approach – Harriet Webb CIEEM, CEcol, CEnv (CIEEM Vice President Wales), Arcadis |
| 10:35 | Planning for invertebrates – the value of brownfields – Gemma Waters MCIEEM, Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust |
| 11:00 | Break |
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SESSION 2 Chair: Harriet Webb CIEEM, CEcol, CEnv (CIEEM Vice President Wales) |
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| 11:20 | Brownfield habitats and biodiversity net gain – building best practice guidance for nature positive cities – Caroline Nash PhD, Sustainability Research Institute at UEL |
| 11:45 | Ty Peilot: A Multi-Agent AI Platform for Contradiction-Driven Biodiversity Enhancement in Post-Industrial Regeneration – Darrell Man BSc(Hons) MSc C Eng FIMechE, Systematic Innovation Network |
| 12:10 | From moonscape to community asset: the Lane End Nature Reserve and Heathlands Neighbourhood, Buckley, Flintshire – Elizabeth Seal, MCIEEM, CEnv, The Environment Partnership (TEP) |
| 12:35 | Lunch |
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SESSION 3 Chair: Harriet Webb CIEEM, CEcol, CEnv (CIEEM Vice President Wales) |
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| 13:35 | Coastal open mosaic habitats on previously developed land in Neath Port Talbot – Charles Hipkin Bsc PhD, Neath Port Talbot Local Nature Partnership |
| 14:00 | Swansea Bay sand dune creation – a nature-based solution – Sean Hathaway MCIEEM, Swansea Council |
| 14:25 | Trevor Basin area and former industrial works redevelopment – Sian Jones MCIEEM, Arcadis; Duncan Macaulay MCIEEM, Arcadis |
| 14:50 | Break |
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SESSION 4 Chair: Harriet Webb CIEEM, CEcol, CEnv (CIEEM Vice President Wales) |
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| 15:10 | The Wales metal mine programme, addressing the challenges of legacy metal mines and working towards the sustainable management of natural resources – Lindsey Mansell CEcol, MCIEEM, Mining Remediation Authority |
| 15:35 | From coal mine to community – the transformation of Coed Ely and Rhyd y Blew collieries – Sian Carr MCIEEM, Arcadis |
| 16:00 | eDNA-based monitoring of recolonisation of regenerated grassland habitats by waxcaps and other grassland macrofungi – Prof. Gareth Wyn Griffith, Aberystwyth University |
| 16:25 | Summary and Close |