Posted: February 19th, 2016

A Short Introduction to the English Planning System

You are a freelance planning consultant. Your client is an agent for high quality newspapers such as the Financial Times and the Economist. Your client has instructed you to prepare a briefing note on the current planning system in England, that journalists can refer to when writing articles on planning issues. The aim of the briefing note is therefore to enable journalists to better understand the recent (ie since 2010) history, context, political, environmental, social and economic arguments that surround the current planning system. In other words, your briefing note will be a short introduction to the English planning system. Your assignment should consist of: (a) The briefing note itself. This should be between 2000 and 2100 words long, and contain a maximum of eight illustrations/diagrams/maps and so forth. The word limits should be strictly adhered to. Note that captions (which should be kept short but pithy) are not included in the word count. The note should not include a table of contents.