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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Awarding Body for the Built Environment has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Awarding Body for the Built Environment awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Awarding Body for the Built Environment. It does the teaching and the mapping. Awarding Body for the Built Environment sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Carry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building control Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 conservation Real 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 conservation Real 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 conservation Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 conservation Real 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 control Real 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 control Real 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 control Real unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain relationships with affected individuals
- Understand teamwork dynamics
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Assess and advise on regulatory factors affecting potential developments
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Assist in the collection of measured data for building or land surveys and present the data analysis
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Confirm energy efficiency and carbon minimisation for building control
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Define, implement and manage information systems in planning, conservation and building control
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Determine and negotiate proposals in planning, conservation and building control
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Evaluate and process applications for registration
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Guide Public Safety Through Building Control Requirements
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Identify and present planning and conservation policy options
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Identify project energy efficiency and carbon minimisation requirements in built environment design
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Identifying, Categorizing, and Routing Plans Efficiently
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Investigate and advise on legal factors affecting potential developments
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Manage and implement incentive schemes in planning and conservation
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Monitor compliance with statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation and building control
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N/A (Title not specified)
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Organise and commission investigations in planning, conservation and building control
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Plan, carry out and present measured surveys in built environment design
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Prepare Applications to Secure Statutory Consents in Planning and Conservation
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Prepare Graphical Information in Conservation and Building Control
Showing 18 of 24 standards these units map to.
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Planning and Zoning Specialist Manager
This role can lead to running a larger team, becoming a recognised expert in land use law, or moving into wider leadership within a firm.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Carry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building controlCarry out measured survey in planning, conservation or building controlCompile and present survey data in planning or building controlIdentify and monitor compliance of developments in planning, conservation or building controlIdentify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building controlInvestigate and assess regulatory factors affecting potential developments in planning, conservation or building controlOperate in a professional manner in planning, conservation or building controlOperate technical information systems in planning, conservation or building control
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Carry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building control” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Process and consult on applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation or building control” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Compile and present survey data in planning or building control” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Work in a team in planning, conservation or building control” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- 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
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Carry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building control, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Focusing on preparing and conducting environmental surveys, ensuring accuracy and compliance with legal requirements.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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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.
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