BA (Hons) Urban and Environmental Planning
Overview
Shaping the future
On this degree, you’ll develop the skills you need to design the needs of coming generations, turning your dreams of how the future should look into a reality.
Where better to study such a topic than the heart of London, one of the world’s most exciting cities, and a place that is constantly changing and evolving to meet the needs of its citizens? As the home of many global players in the development industry, you’ll benefit from amazing networking and placement opportunities and access to inspiring guest lecturers and visits to real projects.
There is currently a national shortage of professional planners and an unsatisfied demand from both the public and private sector after over a decade of public sector austerity.
If you already work in town planning, or are about to take up employment, your employer may like to take advantage of our Chartered Town Planning Apprenticeship.
Why Urban and Environmental Planning at LSBU?
- We’re 2nd in the UK for assessment and feedback in Planning (Urban, Rural & Regional) (National Student Survey 2019).
- Planning the future is nothing new to us – we’ve been offering professionally accredited courses for over 50 years.
- This degree is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute, so you’ll have free student membership while you study.
- We provide the opportunity to study either in full or part-time mode, which is almost unique for undergraduate courses in the UK and unique in London and the South East.
- Two free week-long field trips will see you visit Cornwall and another European city – currently Amsterdam.
Modules
The degree is offered as a three-year full-time course, or five-year course over two semesters per year.
Year 1
- Development Management
- Making Sustainable Places
- Plans, People and Processes
- Planning History and Principles
- Society, Space and Place
- Geographical Investigations
Year 2
- Environmental Change: Issues and Impacts
- Strategies Visions and Design
- Local Economic Development
- Planning for Housing
- Spatial Research Methods
One of the following:
- Geographies of Regeneration
- Work Experience
Year 3
- Evidence Based Planning
- Real Estate Valuation
- International Planning Perspectives
- Cities and Representations
- Dissertation.
Entry requirements
To be considered for entry to the course applicants will normally be required to have the following qualifications:
- A Level BCC;
- BTEC National Diploma MMM;
- Access to HE qualifications with 9 Distinctions and 36 Merits; or
- Equivalent Level 3 qualifications worth 106 UCAS points
Applicants without these qualifications will be considered on a case by case basis if they have relevant work experience in the Town Planning environment.
In addition, applicants must normally hold 5 GCSE at grade A-C including Maths and English, or equivalent (reformed GCSEs grade 4 or above).
Advanced entry
If you have already completed some studies at another university, we may be able to consider you for advanced entry. Please see our advanced entry page for more information.