11 May 2009

Planning Resource magazine features former Sheffield student, Rob Krzyszowski.

(MPlan in Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield)

Rob Krzyszowski started work as a planning assistant at Birmingham City Council in June, shortly after completing the masters year of Sheffield’s four year accredited route.

“As well as explaining the structure and nuts and bolts of the planning system, the course was very helpful in looking at the bigger picture and questioning the wider values that underpin planning,” he says.

Rob appreciated the wide variety of modules, from property market analysis to public participation.
Highlights included group work as part of a made-up planning consultancy, preparing an inner city area action plan, taking part in a formal debate on planning reforms and a field trip to Lille in France.

“Planning particularly captured my imagination due to its inherent political and economic dimensions and it also has a creative element that appealed to me,” he adds.

(Reproduced with kind permission of Planning magazine. www.planningresource.co.uk)