Professionals and Qualifications – Page 16
Who is competent to prepare or sign off each report, and how to brief and check them.
Professionals and Qualifications articles – page 16
372 articlesWhat RTPI chartered membership means for your application
There is no register a planning agent must be on. Chartered status is a voluntary assurance in a field where nothing is required, so it helps to know what it covers.
Landscape architect competence for a GLVIA3 assessment
GLVIA3 runs on structured professional judgement rather than a formula, which makes the identity and experience of the assessor the point objectors aim at.
Who is competent to write a contaminated land report
Councils check the author of a contaminated land report before they check its conclusions. Here are the registers that matter, the liabilities involved and a review checklist.
CIEEM grades: who is qualified to write your ecology report
Membership is not a legal requirement, but survey licences and competent person rules are. Here is what each grade signals and what to ask before you appoint an ecologist.
Who should write your Transport Assessment, and with what data
There is no protected title for transport planning, so authorities judge the author and the data. Here is what memberships signal, how trip rate selection should be evidenced, and why reports get returned.
RICS registered valuers and viability assessments in planning
Viability turns on valuations, and valuation is regulated. Here is what registration means, what the standard requires, and how to brief a viability consultant.
Who can carry out an archaeological field evaluation
The council's archaeological adviser writes the brief, you appoint the contractor, and the written scheme of investigation has to be approved before ground is broken.
Who can write a Gateway One fire statement for planning
There is no statutory register of fire engineers, so the applicant carries the competence question. What to look for in an author, and what belongs in the planning stage statement.
Arboriculturist competence for a BS 5837 tree survey
BS 5837 assumes the survey is done by an arboriculturist with relevant education, training and experience. Councils increasingly test that assumption rather than take it on trust.
Choosing an acoustician for a BS 4142 assessment
A BS 4142 assessment lives or dies on the background sound survey. Most rejected noise reports fail on measurement position, timing or calibration rather than on the arithmetic.
Competent person for the statutory biodiversity metric
The Environment Act 2021 regime expects the statutory metric to be completed by a competent person. That means habitat classification and condition assessment in the field, not a spreadsheet exercise.
Who can hold a bat mitigation licence and what it allows
A bat mitigation licence is granted to the person carrying out the works, with a named ecologist responsible for the method. Planning permission normally has to be in place first.
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