INTRODUCTION Also known as Town Planning, Town and Country Planning, Regional and Town Planning, Urban or City

Planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities. Other professions deal in more detail with a smaller scale of development, namely architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level.

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BACKGROUND 19th century: town planning became influenced by the newly formalised disciplines of architecture and civil engineering. 1960's: the domain of town planning has expanded to include economic development planning, community social planning and environmental planning. 20th century: part of the task of urban planning became urban renewal/urban regeneration initiatives within cities and local councils, and re-invigorating inner cities by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities, some with much long-term infrastructural decay.
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DEFINITION The art and science of ordering the use of land and the character and siting of buildings and communication routes so as to secure the maximum practicable degree of economy, convenience and beauty (Principles and Practice of Town and Country Planning, Lewis Keeble, 1969: p. 1). Town planning is concerned with finding the best use for land and controlling its development to meet the needs of all groups within our society. Aim: to find the balance between the conflicting demands of housing, industrial development, agriculture, recreation, the transport network and the environment, to allow appropriate development to take place.
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TOWN PLANNING INVOLVES: the long-term and short-term decisions about the management and development of towns. the views of a wider range of people - participating in interest groups is a key aspect of a planner's role. spending a lot of time dealing with other professions and the public. They have to take advice and opinions from many different people and filter this information so that it assists those who have to make the decisions on planning issues. the pressures on the environment and are seeking to promote sustainable development to protect the environment for future generations.
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TYPICAL WORK ACTIVITIES Town planning is a broad area of work, which requires many different skills. Some town planners may specialise, for example, in enforcement or development control. In general, tasks typically involve: researching and analysing data about a specific topic, such as minerals or a geographical area, and then co-ordinating this data along with information gathered from a variety of sources, such as basic survey work, to enable informed judgements to be made; promoting environmental education and awareness: opinions about planning issues and proposals
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 consulting with interested parties and negotiating development proposals with local authorities and others, including liaising with other professionals; presenting at and attending planning appeals and public enquiries; developing creative and original solutions to satisfy all parties; recalling data, facts and procedures accurately; designing layouts and drafting design statements; assessing planning applications, enforcing and monitoring regulations as necessary; drafting policies;
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 scheduling available resources to meet targets; writing reports, often of a complex nature, which make recommendations or explain detailed regulations (reports can be for a range of groups, from local borough councils to regional assemblies or members of the public); dealing with the public, including presenting proposals at public meetings or planning committees (often these meetings bring together very different groups of people and planners may encounter hostility to their proposals, which they need to deal with effectively and sensitively); using information technology systems such as CAD (computer-aided design) or GIS (geographical infomation systems);
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SPECIAL SKILLS AND INTEREST Internet and computer skills interest in the future, protection of the environment concern for urban renewal interest in improving the quality of life and the environment

PERSONAL QUALITIES organization skills able to see the large picture of how everything relates to each other interpersonal skills - must meet with City Council, Special Interest groups ability to express ideas orally and in written statements
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PLANNING CONSULTANT FIRMS Planning consultants potentially have two main roles: Providing professional services to local and state governments, or their agencies to assist their employed officers in carrying out their statutory town planning responsibilities; Acting for private developers or other commercial interests in planning matters and / or designing urban developments; and assisting developers in their interactions with governments in relation to planning matters.

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