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DRAFT Planning Enforcement Professional Practice |
NOT VALIDATED |
| Code: DRAFT |
| Title: Planning Enforcement Professional Practice |
| Version: 1 |
| Level: 2 |
| UWE credit rating: 20 |
| ECTS credits: 10 |
| Module type: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE |
| Owning Faculty: Built Environment |
| Field: Planning and Architecture |
| Valid from: |
| Discontinued from: |
| Contributes towards: |
| Pre-requisites: --- |
| Co-requisites: --- |
| Excluded combinations: None |
| Learning outcomes: This module allows students to demonstrate learning gained during professional practice in Planning Enforcement. Students will negotiate a learning agreement with their workplace mentor and UWE supervisor at the commencement of the study period. The learning agreement will act as a framework for the demonstration and development of the knowledge, skills and competences necessary to act effectively in the field of planning enforcement. The learning agreement will specify the individual's learning objectives and provide a clear indication of the form that submitted evidence will take in order to be considered suitable for assessment. The learning agreement will also specify the learning resources that are available to support the learner. By the end of the module the student should be able to:- 1 demonstrate the necessary legal and technical knowledge, skills and competences required for practice as a planning enforcment officer; 2 critically reflect on the challenges and responsibilities of the role and be competant in recognising the need for and and able to facilitate, on going learning and personal development, 3 be able to act independently to operate a case load of planning enforcement work in an efficient and effective way with minimum supervision, 4 be able to prepare evidence to support planning enforcment cases through the legal processes and competant to act as necessary to ensure compliance, 5 be aware of probity issues and able to recognise difficulties and uncertainties when they arise and aware of appropriate actions to take. |
| Syllabus outline: The precise nature of the syllabus will be negotiated between the learner, the workplace mentor and the UWE supervisor. The agreement will reflect local issues and workplace priorities, but the agreement, whilst recognising workplace goals, will also seek to ensure that the learner develops an appropriate range of knowledge, skills and competences that will equip him or her to operate elsewhere in the UK. |
| Teaching and learning methods: A Student will commence his or her programme of study by developing the learning agreement with the allocated workplace mentor. The prepared document will be the subject of negotiation with the UWE supervisor and when agreed this will form the basis of the student's activities throughout the learning period. Students will keep a learning log that will be in the form of a portfolio of documentary or other appropriate evidence. This portfolio will aim to demonstrate that the student has met the required learning outcomes. To avoid plagiarism the workplace mentor will monitor the work as it develops and confirm the authenticity of the submission as work carried out by the student with minimal supervision. In cases where particular gaps in knowldge, skills or experience are noted by one or more of the three parties to the learning agreement, additional training needs will be identified and the necessary training undertaken. This might take the form of attendance at short courses, fieldwork activities, court appearances, attendance at inquiries, open or distance learning or any other suitable activity agreed by the student, the mentor and the UWE supervisor. |
| Indicative sources: Critten,P (1995) Assessing and Accrediting Prior and Work-based Learning, London, Middlesex University. Marshall,L & Rowland,S.(1993) A Guide to Learning Independently, Buckingham,OUP. |
| Reading strategy: In negotiating the learning contract the access available in the the workplace to key documents will be assessed and adjustments made accordingly. Appropriate additional study materials will be available on a designated website through either FBE web or UWEonline, both of which are available off campus. Appropriate reading, such as case law, reflective articles and workshop activities will supplement the workbased resources. |
| Specification confirmed by _________________________ [Signature of Dean, Associate Dean or Programme Director] |