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Seize the opportunity to be a new generation place-maker This week saw the launch of Public Practice, a social enterprise aiming to recruit a new generation of place-making planners for local authorities, beginning with London and the South East. Developed through the Mayor of London’s ‘Good Growth by Design’ programme it counts the Mayor, the Local Government Association and developers British Land, Berkeley Group and housing association Peabody among its founding partners. Chief executive and moving force, Finn Williams, explains that the scheme aims to place outstanding candidates from architecture, planning and urban design, offering them an alternative career path focused on shaping places for the public good. The scheme has also set itself the ambition of changing perceptions of planning and what it can achieve at a time when the profession seems to be at a low ebb. Recruitment of the first cohort of 16 ‘Associates’ got under way this week. The deadline for applications for the first cohort of Associates is 10 December 2017.

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