Overview

• Develop the skills to assist professional planners to design communities and assess the impacts of their development. 
• Learn how to prepare plans for residential, retail and industrial areas, transport links, as well as conduct environmental impact assessments. 
• Work with planning teams to assess development applications at the local and state government level. 

Further study

The Associate Degree of Spatial Science (Urban and Regional Planning) is the perfect stepping stone into the Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (Honours).

Career outcomes

• As a graduate you will have knowledge and skills to work as a planning assistant to support professional planners and provide planning assistance in local, state and federal government agencies, property development companies or in private enterprise. 
• Career possibilities include residential, commercial and retail developments, urban renewal and greenfields projects, transport planning, social planning, environmental planning and regional and rural planning.