Campaigning & Advocacy

Planners should engage children and young people at an early stage within policies, plans and developments rather than seeing them as an ‘add-on’ later, according to RTPI guidance.

Six tests have been identified to ensure that people and nature remain part of the planning system.

Councillors should receive compulsory training in planning before they sit on committees to make decisions on applications, according to a housebuilder.

Introducing a town planning apprenticeship in Northern Ireland would help the profession become ‘genuinely representative’ of the society in which it works, says the RTPI.