B.A. Planning and Property Development (Hons)

In Year 1 you will develop the knowledge and skills required to understand the concepts of planning and property development and how these inter-relate. Areas that you will focus on include spatial planning, valuation and commercial management, economics, real estate and construction law and environmental studies.

Year 2 further develops your knowledge and skills related to the disciplines. Both law and valuation are provided through modules in Landlord and Tenant Law and Statutory Valuation. A further module, Urban Development Processes and Finance, links development and valuation directly to the public sector as well as private sector finance frameworks and disciplines. A politics module sets the wider sociopolitical climate in which planning and property decision making takes place and a further module introduces geographical information systems. Two modules in Research Data and Methods introduces you to approaches to independent research work including statistical methods, survey design and ethical issues.

In Year 3, you will again build on their existing knowledge base from earlier years. You will explore the themes of local planning and development control, planning thought, regional and strategic planning, advanced valuation and real estate investment. You will also undertake an independent research project drawing on the techniques used in the Research Data and Methods modules from Year 2. For this, you will receive individual guidance from a supervisor drawn from the department’s staff.