Becoming a planner

You don’t have to start your career as a planner to become a planner. Planning officer Laura Hutson tells us how she made the move from publishing.

Planners can find roles in an extraordinary range of sectors and organisations, from councils to international charities and property developers, as Nikola Miller explains

What can you expect to earn as a professional planner? A salary survey conducted by the Royal Town Planning Institute suggests that rewards in planning compare with those in other professions.

Here’s a typical day in the life of Lucy Seymour-Bowdery, a senior planner in the strategic planning department at West Sussex County Council.

Planning has been around since the first cities were built thousands of years ago, but has only been considered a profession for the past hundred years or so. Former RTPI Young Planner of the Year Zoe Green takes a look at what planners actually do.

A poll by recruitment specialist REED reveals what matters most to workers over the course of their careers