Emerging Planners
About this episode
This episode features discussions with young planners about their innovative contributions to local planning authorities and the Emerging Planner Award.
A couple of months ago Sam Stafford saw that Shaun Knights at Preston City Council and national vice chair of the Young Planning Officers Society (POS) had posted on LinkedIn encouraging nominations for POS’ ‘Emerging Planner Award’ (EPA). “I’ve already seen some genuinely impressive submissions that show the amazing day‑to‑day work young planners are doing and the fresh ideas they’re bringing into LPAs”, Shaun wrote. Sam was interested in the amazing day‑to‑day work that young planners are doing and the fresh ideas they’re bringing into LPAs, and thought that 50 Shades listeners would be too. He sent Shaun a message asking if he and his Young POS colleagues would be interested in making an episode of the podcast with some of the planners that were subsequently short-listed for the award. He was, and some of them were, and so they put this together ahead of and after the POS Conference in Nottingham at which the winner of the award was announced. Young POS is a network for public sector planners with less than ten years post qualification experience and it provides opportunities for planners to support one another through the sharing of experience, learning and knowledge…
People in this episode
Host: Sam Stafford
Topics covered
- young planners
- planning awards
- public sector
- local planning authorities
- professional development
Keywords
- young planners
- Emerging Planner Award
- public sector planning
- local planning authorities
- professional development
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Young Planning Officers Society, Preston City Council
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