Social enterprise Public Practice has announced the largest placement of private-sector architecture and planning professionals in local authority roles in its five-year history.

It comes against the backdrop of billions of pounds of government money being allocated to grassroots placemaking projects, but a lack of resources to fund expertise to deliver them in council planning departments.

Public Practice aims to help fill skills gaps in under-resourced authorities by lining up private-sector professionals for one-year placements. It said 41 architects and planners were taking part in the project’s latest wave.

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