Urban and Rural Planning

Recognised by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), this flexible, Joint Distance Learning Consortium (JDLC) course will focus on all stages of urban and rural planning. This will include:

• Urban design
• Plan making and policy
• Planning law and decision making
• Planning and place histories
• The development process
• Finance
• Implementation and delivery
• Stakeholder participation and politics

As part of your course, you'll:

• Gain a critical awareness of the social, economic, political and regulatory nature of planning
• Evaluate development strategies and assess the challenges of planned interventions, sustainability and climate change
• Specialise in an area of personal interest through an Open University option module
  
  

Once you have found the course you want to study in our online prospectus you will then click on the ‘Apply Now’ button located at the top of the online course page.

You will be asked to create an account on our application portal and complete your application via your Leeds Beckett account. Once you have submitted your application you should receive a decision in due course. The exception to this is if the course you have applied for has a closing date specified. In this case, we will wait until the closing date has passed before we contact you.