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.

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.