Climate Resilience Planner

As a town planning officer, you help decide how your town or city develops. When someone wants to build something new - a house, a shop, a school or a park - your job is to work out if it's a good idea. You look at how it fits with what's already there, whether it will work for local people, and if it does any harm to the environment.

Most of your time is spent in an office, looking at maps and plans and writing reports. But you also visit sites to see what's really there, and you talk to local people about new developments to find out what they think. You work with builders, architects, councils and residents, helping them all understand what can and can't be built, and why.