{"id":59202,"date":"2019-06-28T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=59202"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:25:59","slug":"lsbu-chartered-town-planner-apprenticeship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/lsbu-chartered-town-planner-apprenticeship\/59202\/","title":{"rendered":"LSBU launches first Chartered Town Planner apprenticeship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\/\">London South Bank University<\/a> (LSBU) is today (28 June) the first UK University to launch a full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/membership\/membership-classes\/chartered-town-planner\/\">Chartered Town Planner<\/a> apprenticeship (Level 7) in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/\">Royal Town Planning Institute<\/a> (RTPI)<\/h2>\n<p>Just under 100 delegates, including representatives from around 25 local authorities attended today\u2019s launch event at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\/about-us\/news\/passmore-centre-southwark-opens-2018\">LSBU\u2019s Passmore Centre for Professional and Technical Education<\/a>. They were joined by a number of private sector companies and academic staff from LSBU\u2019s School of Law and Social Sciences (LSS) which oversees the University\u2019s Town Planning degree course.<\/p>\n<p>The Level 7 Chartered Town Planner apprenticeship programme starts this September and includes elements of planning, politics and theory; with optional specialisms in housing and regeneration, sustainable infrastructure, mobility and urban design; planning law in practice and best practice in spatial planning.<\/p>\n<p>On completion of their course, successful apprentices will gain a Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) fully-accredited qualification and become Chartered Members of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI), allowing them to use the title \u2018Chartered Town Planner\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, professor Craig Barker, dean of LSBU\u2019s School of Law and Social Sciences. said: \u201cLSBU is already renowned in the industry for excellence in delivering town planning qualifications. We are very proud to be able to build on this heritage now, with our new Chartered Town Planner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/hlm-architects-apprenticeships\/53570\/\">apprenticeship scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are currently five providers listed with the RTPI at the moment, but LSBU is the only one to offer the full five-year route, taking on people with \u2018A levels\u2019 or experience but no formal qualifications, all the way from level 4 to level 7.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London South Bank University (LSBU) has launched a full Chartered Town Planner apprenticeship in partnership with the Royal Town Planning Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[547,676,3649,579,947,952,639,465],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-apprenticeship","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-infrastructure","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-planning","13":"tag-procurement","14":"tag-sustainable-construction"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LSBU launches first Chartered Town Planner apprenticeship Planning, Building &amp; 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