Industries · Planning
Planning
The system that decides what gets built, and the professionals who run it. What planning involves and who is hiring.
Knowledge
Working in planning.
Planning is the system that decides what can be built where, and an industry in its own right. Local authority planners manage development and write policy, while the RTPI charters the profession.
For architects, planners are the most important professional relationship outside the design team. Schemes succeed when design quality and planning strategy are developed together rather than traded against each other, and designers who understand policy win more consents.
This hub gathers the live picture for planning roles: who is hiring, which teams are growing, and the conversations shaping the system right now.
- It shapes everything
Planning decides what can be built where, and every project feels its force.
- A profession of its own
The RTPI is the chartered body for planners, with its own professional route.
- Allies, not opponents
Architects and planners work best as allies: design quality and planning strategy rise together.
Roles
Roles in planning.
Each role hub carries live jobs, people and salary guidance for that title.
Learn
Learn about planning.
- PodcastFrom Designs to Developments: Greg Blaquiere's Planning JourneyThe Architecture Social PodcastListen
- PodcastWhy Most Architects Shouldn’t Be Developers (But Some Should) ft. Ben RichardsThe Architecture Social PodcastListen
- PodcastJohn Snow - Move aside the King in the North! This is the Prince of Planning!The Architecture Social PodcastListen
- GuideWorking With Planning Consultants: A CPD for ArchitectsCPD guide from the podcastRead
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