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  • Careers Advice: How to develop your leadership skills

    • 5 Mar 2018
    • Jason Moore

    Developing your leadership skills can be crucial in helping drive your career forward, says Jason Moore.

  • Careers Advice: Understanding the role of Planning Performance Agreements in the application process

    • 26 Feb 2018
    • Mike Kiely

    Well-drafted and succinct planning performance agreements are an important part of understanding roles in processing planning applications, says Mike Kiely, but are only part of a good pre-application process.

  • Careers Advice: Improving awareness of design and architecture

    • 26 Feb 2018
    • Peter Murray

    Peter Murray outlines ways in which planners can improve their knowledge and awareness of architectural and design issues.

  • Careers Advice: Mastering joint working on local plans

    • 12 Feb 2018
    • Matt Gregory

    Experience from the Greater Nottingham authorities preparing aligned local plans could be relevant for others considering joint plan-making, says Matt Gregory.

  • Careers Advice: Working to support the development of Garden Cities and New Settlements

    • 5 Feb 2018
    • Stephen Hill

    Stephen Hill outlines how planners can bring a range of skills and activities to helping to deliver major residential-led schemes such as garden settlements.

  • Careers Advice: Grasping the nettle of Habitat Regulations Assessment

    • 29 Jan 2018
    • Dr James Riley

    Dr James Riley outlines the main features of carrying out Habitat Regulations Regulations assessments.

  • Careers Advice: The skills and benefits of working in planning enforcement

    • 22 Jan 2018
    • David Lomas

    Enforcement officers require a unique set of skills and an ability to empathise with people, says David Lomas.

  • Careers Advice: How can planners effectively carry out an assessment of the green belt?

    • 15 Jan 2018
    • Sarah Grady

    Sarah Grady and Jane Healey-Brown outline how planners can effectively undertake green belt assessments.

  • Wonderful Workplaces: Opportunity beckons at Turley in Reading

    • 9 Jan 2018
    • Turley

    Insider insight into what it’s like to work at Turley in Reading and the leadership role it’s recruiting for.

  • Careers Advice: Learning the social aspects of planning through working on neighbourhood plans

    • 18 Dec 2017
    • Chris Bowden

    Working in neighbourhood planning can help develop new skills and a better understanding of what makes communities tick, says Chris Bowden

  • How to tailor your CV for a planning director role

    • 14 Dec 2017
    • Laura Sullivan

    Top tips from Laura Sullivan at TopCV to help you adapt your CV for a planning director role.

  • Careers Advice: Tips for local authority planners navigating a neighbourhood plan examination

    • 11 Dec 2017
    • Lee Armitage

    For local authority policy planners, it is almost inevitable that a neighbourhood plan examination will have to be navigated at some point, says Lee Armitage.

  • Careers Advice: Strategic redeployment, vulnerability diagnosis and career development

    • 4 Dec 2017
    • Steve Ottewell

    In his second article on careers and resilience planning, Steve Ottewell says strategic redeployment of resources and vulnerability diagnosis for services can work alongside career progression for planners.

  • Careers Advice: Working in consultancy support services to enhance career progression

    • 24 Nov 2017
    • Steve Ottewell

    Steve Ottewell outlines how planning ‘resilience’ arrangements can be good for both careers and service sustainability

  • Careers Advice: Planning how organisational structure can aid recruitment and retention

    • 20 Nov 2017
    • Pat Hayes

    The establishment of arm's length companies can help managers with the challenge of recruiting and retaining planners, says Pat Hayes.

  • Careers Advice: Effective career planning for planners

    • 13 Nov 2017
    • Jason Moore

    Effective career planning can mean having a flexible approach to keep options open, says Jason Moore.

  • Careers Advice: The secret to a better work-life balance

    • 6 Nov 2017
    • Jeremy Money

    Planners should work to live, not live to work in order to achieve a better work-life balance, says Jeremy Money

  • Careers Advice: Progressing your career in the consultancy sector

    • 30 Oct 2017
    • Charlie Mayer, Sophie Long and Jane Healey Brown

    Charlie Mayer, Sophie Long and Jane Healey Brown outline key tips to help planners in the consultancy sector progress their careers

  • Careers Advice: Design and influence - getting your point across

    • 23 Oct 2017
    • Chris Kennett

    Chris Kennett outlines some approaches to promote a more effective approach to incorporating good design into development schemes.

  • What is it like to work at...Horsham District Council?

    • 18 Oct 2017
    • Jennifer Jackson

    Want to work in a dynamic environment, pushing boundaries to be the best? Find out about working for Horsham District Council.