Town Planning Jobs

Town Planning Jobs

A town planner helps communities, companies and politicians to decide on the best way to use land and buildings.

A planner’s main aim is achieving sustainability. This means balancing different social, environmental and economic issues when official decisions are made on whether a piece of land is built on or not. Another way to describe this job is 'making places', such as towns, for people to live and work. Planners do not construct buildings but recommend how and where buildings should be built, what they should be used for and how they should fit into the local surroundings. Our About planning guide gives you a taster of what you could do.

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Town Planning Jobs

Are you looking for a Town Planning job? Planning Jobs from PlanningJobs.com, is a website designed to help you find the Town Planning job that's right for you.

PlanningJobs.com has specialist jobs within the planning sector, including Town Planner jobs in private practice, local authorities, local government. If you have ambitions of becoming a Town Planner, then you have come to the right place.

So, what does a Town Planner do in their job?

Town Planners not only plan towns as the job title suggests, but also the countryside. The decisions that Town Planners make affect housing, community development, conservation, regeneration and transport.

What are the tasks of a Town Planner, they include the following: 

Town planning involves a variety of different aspects that in many cases a Town Planner will specialise only in one area such as development control or urban design. Some common tasks are:

  • Research on everything from minerals to geographical and then compiling this information into concise reports to be analysed.
  • Site visits regarding planned projects and proposals. This often includes dealing with the public as well as the various contractors involved.
  • Using systems such as CAD or GIS
  • Using creativity to find solutions in projects and satisfy all those concerned.
 
Key qualities of a Town Planner include: 

A Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) accredited qualification - MRTPI
An experienced graduate with at least two years work experience

Planning has been around since the first cities were built thousands of years ago, but has only been considered a profession for the past hundred years or so.