Environment and Planning BA (Hons) at University of Liverpool

This degree programme gives you a full understanding of the primary environmental challenges of the 21st century and provides you with the skills base to help address them.

You’ll gain a rounded understanding of the factors and forces that are shaping the environment and the role that planning can play in reconciling competing and conflicting interests. Attention is focused on approaches to the protection and enhancement of natural and built environments in a rapidly changing world. An interdisciplinary approach to study provides learning opportunities that draw upon the expertise of academics in Planning as well as academics in the departments of Geography, Sociology and Architecture. This programme provides accreditation from the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).

This programme is designed as part of a suite of strongly related programmes in planning, and core modules in Years One and Two are shared with our BA Urban Planning, MPlan Town and Regional Planning and BA Geography and Planning. This enables students to transfer between programmes in the first two years should their interests or career aspirations change.

Please note: this is subject to achieving grades above the required threshold during your studies.

Career prospects

Our Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) accredited programmes ensure that you are fully qualified to enter this dynamic profession on graduation.

Our programmes are varied, interdisciplinary, and have a strong vocational focus, meaning that Liverpool planning graduates enter a wide range of planning related careers in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

We have graduates who are working in the UK and across the world in what is becoming an increasingly global profession. Many of our graduates have senior positions in private practice, central and local government, and academic institutions, and 11 former Presidents of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) were graduates from the Department.

We take the employability of our graduates seriously and have taken care to build into our degree programmes the development of transferrable skills as well as making sure our graduates develop the necessary professional skills to begin their careers.

Recent employers

• Consultancy: Atkins, Arup, Indigo, Savills
• Local Authority: Islington Borough Council, Lancashire County Council
• Public bodies: Transport for London (TFL), Natural England, Environment Agency, National Parks Authorities
• Non-governmental organisations: Liverpool Vision, Council for the Protection of Rural England, RSPB
• Advocacy: Housing associations, social
  enterprise, economic development.

Career paths taken by our recent graduates:

• Planning and environmental consultants
• Strategic and local development planning
• Development management
• Transport planning
• Urban regeneration
• Economic development
• Environmental management
• Urban designers
• GIS and data science specialists
• Academic researchers
• Social housing.