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Planning Skills Events

The Planning Skills Series supports the learning and development needs of our members through a series of events, webinars and recorded training sessions.

Upcoming Planning Skills Events and Webinars

Please sign up to the Planning Skills mailing list for direct updates on any future events.

We also encourage all local authority planning staff to join the HOPS Knowledge Hub for discussion and updates on other  training events.

Scottish Government now publish information on other training options for planning staff, this can be found on the OurPlace website.


Rural Housing

3 June, 2.00pm- 4.00pm, Microsoft  Teams

The National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) has introduced policy requirements related to rural housing. The overarching policy intent, as outlined in NPF4, is:

“To encourage, promote and facilitate the delivery of more high quality, affordable and sustainable rural homes in the right locations.” (p61, NPF4, Scottish Government)

This webinar brings in experts from Savills, the Scottish Land Commission and the Robertson Group to look at the current challenges faced in the delivery of rural housing and the impact that planning can have on this.

This webinar is open to all

Register for this event


Previous Planning Skills Events

Find links to recordings of our previous Planning Skills events below.

Members are fully involved in determining priority development needs and how best to meet those needs through on-going dialogue and support.

Scottish Government aspirations for a more "visionary profession" within planning (Places, People and Planning) looks to culture change and improvements to current practice as key contributors to planning realising its full potential. In response, it is felt that the Planning Skills Series should develop to include:

  • the promotion of more collaborative learning with other sectors and agencies, and
  • lead practice across Scotland as a key element for more experiential learning.

Members are encouraged to contribute thoughts to these or future topics.

Trevor Moffat - Project Manager, Planning for Place