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Education resources

  • Education services
    Student and teacher resources and our residential environmental education centre
  • Professional training courses
    Access, countryside management, interpretation and business skills courses as well as tailor-made packages
  • Conference Centre
    Set in the heart of the Peak District, fully-equipped rooms and home-made food

A Non Planners Guide to the Planning System

10 - 12 November 2010

Course Director: David Mount, Charlie Falzon

If you know nothing or little about the planning system, this course will change all that.  Find out how you can make it work for your sites and communities

Learn to

  • Engage effectively in the planning process, and get up to speed with the way the system is changing.
  • Use the system to optimise opportunities for environmental protection and enhancement and to defend sensitive sites.
  • Help communities to understand how the system works, and how they can make it work for them.
  • Engage with planning officers with confidence.
  • Cut through the jargon.

Benefits for your role

Practical, thought-provoking activities, together with topical case study exercises, will ensure that you return to work able to promote conservation and amenity concerns, influence other’s development proposals, or help local groups engage with the planning system.

Tuition Fee: Book by 10 September £421 (Standard £495) plus two nights Dinner, B& B £116

More Information

Please contact us if you have any queries about our courses, or for an informal chat about how we can help you with your training and development needs.

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Email: training.losehill@peakdistrict.gov.uk