Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 3
ABBE Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Town Planning Technical Support
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits70
- Guided learning200 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The ABBE Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Town Planning Technical Support is a competence-based qualification designed to recognize skills of individuals working in town planning as support staff for local authorities, private sector consultancies, or as approved inspectors.
These are the units Awarding Body for the Built Environment registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Carry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for an environmental survey
- Understand environmental survey preparation
Carry out measured survey in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare effectively for measured survey operations, including planning, equipment checks, and site reconnaissance
- Understand the preparatory steps required for conducting measured survey operations, including risk assessments and method selection
- Conduct measured surveys accurately and efficiently, using appropriate instruments and techniques
- Understand the principles and techniques of measured surveying, including data processing and quality control
Compile and present survey data in planning or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Compile survey data accurately and efficiently, using appropriate methods and tools
- Understand the methods used to compile survey data, including their strengths and limitations
- Analyse survey results to identify key trends and patterns relevant to planning or building control
- Present survey results clearly and concisely, using appropriate formats such as tables, charts, and reports, to inform decision-making
Identify and monitor compliance of developments in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor complaints and compliance
- Understand monitoring and compliance processes
Identify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building control contexts
- Understand the methods used to identify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building control contexts
Investigate and assess regulatory factors affecting potential developments in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify relevant regulatory requirements and constraints affecting potential developments in planning, conservation, or building control
- Understand the processes involved in identifying regulatory requirements and constraints, including relevant legislation, guidance, and consultation procedures
- Report on potential developments, outlining their compliance with regulatory requirements and constraints
- Advise stakeholders on potential developments, including the implications of regulatory factors and possible mitigation strategies
Operate in a professional manner in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Work ethically
- Understand ethical responsibilities
Operate technical information systems in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Operate information systems
- Understand operation of information systems
Organise consultation and community engagement in planning or conservationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Organise consultation and community engagement
- Understand how to organise consultation and community engagement
Prepare applications and appeals to secure approvals and statutory consent in planning or conservationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and submit applications to secure approvals and consents in planning or conservation, in accordance with relevant legislation and organisational procedures.
- Understand the processes involved in preparing and submitting applications to secure approvals and consents in planning or conservation.
Prepare applications grant and other funding in planning or conservationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare applications to secure grant and other funding in planning or conservation, ensuring all required documentation is accurate and complete.
- Understand the requirements for preparing applications to secure grant and other funding in planning or conservation.
Prepare for and participate in meetings in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for meetings.
- Understand how to prepare for meetings.
- Participate in meetings.
- Understand how to participate in meetings.
Prepare graphical information in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Produce graphical information in planning, conservation or building control
- Understand the techniques used to produce graphical information in planning, conservation or building control
Process and consult on applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Process applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation or building control
- Consult on applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation or building control
- Explain the processes involved in handling applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements
- Describe the consultation processes required when handling applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements
Process applications to secure grant and other funding in planning or conservationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Process applications to secure grant and other funding in planning or conservation, adhering to relevant guidelines and regulations.
- Understand the procedures for processing applications to secure grant and other funding in planning or conservation.
Process information relevant to breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Gather information relevant to a case of breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building control
- Understand the methods used to gather information relevant to a case of breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building control
- Progress the resolution of a case of breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building control
- Understand the procedures for progressing the resolution of a case of breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building control
Provide technical support in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Respond to information requests
- Understand how to provide technical support
Work in a team in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain relationships with affected individuals
- Understand teamwork dynamics
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Where these credits take you
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- Assess and advise on regulatory factors affecting potential developments
- Assist in the collection of measured data for building or land surveys and present the data analysis
- Confirm energy efficiency and carbon minimisation for building control
- Define, implement and manage information systems in planning, conservation and building control
- Determine and negotiate proposals in planning, conservation and building control
- Evaluate and process applications for registration
- Guide Public Safety Through Building Control Requirements
- Identify and present planning and conservation policy options
Where this can lead
Planning and Zoning Specialist Manager
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What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
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Focusing on preparing and conducting environmental surveys, ensuring accuracy and compliance with legal requirements.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABBE Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Town Planning Technical Support
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Carry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building control
- Carry out measured survey in planning, conservation or building control
- Compile and present survey data in planning or building control
- Identify and monitor compliance of developments in planning, conservation or building control
- Identify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building control
- Investigate and assess regulatory factors affecting potential developments in planning, conservation or building control
and 12 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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