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Property Development and Planning

  • BSc (Hons)
  • 4 Years
  • Sandwich
  • 14 September 2026
  • Undergraduate
City Campus
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Course summary

Property development and planning is fundamental to the growth of the property industry – from scheme proposal, site identification and analysis, through to design, viability, finance and marketing. This course has been developed to enable you to focus on adding value to land and property, as an adviser, consultant or developer of the future.

You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of areas including spatial and urban design, site appraisal, sustainability, planning and development consultancy and management of the development process. Alongside specialist and technical knowledge you'll focus on business planning, client care and negotiation and develop the core surveying competencies required in industry.

Key Features

  • Professional Accreditation | This course is triple accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) — representing your first step towards Chartered status.

  • Industry-Facing Projects |  Apply your learning to the real world, with opportunities to take part in live projects as part of the course. Your assessments will be based on real projects, supported by companies such as JLL, Rolls-Royce and Igloo.

  • Professional Facilities | You'll have the opportunity to utilise our professional-level equipment and software – including digital mapping, environmental risk information and industry information systems and databases – to complete project work.

  • Placement Year | You'll gain vital skills and experience by undertaking a one-year placement on our sandwich route. Previously students have spent their placements at Lambert Smith Hampton, Barker Storey Matthews and Jaguar Land Rover.

  • Destination Study Visits | Field trips and study visits are an important part of your learning on this course. Previous trips have included destinations in Madrid, Milan, Dublin, Malta and Berlin.

Key Statistics

  • Top 2 Ranking | Learn from the experts — Land and Property Management at NTU is ranked 2nd in the UK for Teaching Quality (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2025).

  • Top 2 Ranking | NTU is the 2nd most sustainable university in the world (UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2024).

  • Top 25 Rankings | Study in the heart of Nottingham — one of Europe’s top 25 student cities, and home to over 75,000 learners (QS Best Student Cities, 2025).

Modules

Year One

  • Professional, Academic and Business Skills (20 credit points)
  • Surveying Skills (20 credit points)
  • Construction (20 credit points)
  • Economics and Valuation (20 credit points)
  • Law (20 credit points)
  • Planning and Land Use (20 credit points)

Year Two

  • Valuation (20 credit points)
  • Concepts and Practice in Planning (20 credit points)
  • Property Management and Agency (40 credit points)
  • Property Development: Principles and Practice (20 credit points)
  • Employability and Commercial Awareness (20 credit points)

Year Three

  • This is your opportunity to spend a year working in industry, giving you real hands-on experience and introducing you to exciting opportunities for your future employment. A successful completion of the placement year will lead you to an additional qualification – the Diploma in Professional Practice.

Final Year

  • Development Consultancy (40 credit points)
  • Planning Consultancy (40 credit points)
  • Research Project (20 credit points)
  • Heritage and Conservation (20 credits)

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Chartered Surveyors, Royal Institution of

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • City Campus

Study options

  • BSc (Hons) • Sandwich • 4 Years

Start dates

  • 14 September 2026

Apply by
14 January

This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.

Application codes

Course code:
K491
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
City Campus
Campus Code:
1
Points of Entry:
Year 1

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How to apply

Apply by
14 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
K491
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
City Campus
Campus Code:
1

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

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Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff
104 - 112 points

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)

A level

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DMM

DMM from a BTEC Extended Diploma

Access to HE Diploma

Pass your Access course with 60 credits overall with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Diploma and up to two other qualifications.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate and up to three other qualifications (one of which must be A-Level equivalent).

T Level

We will consider T Levels for entry to this course, either as stand-alone qualifications or in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications, in accordance with the specified course tariff points.

A lower offer may be made based on a range of factors, including your background (such as where you live and the school or college you attended), your experiences and individual circumstances (you may have been in care, for example). This is called a contextual offer and we get data from UCAS to make these decisions. NTU offers a student experience like no other, and this approach helps us to find students who have the potential to succeed here, but may have faced barriers that can make it more difficult to access university.

We also consider equivalent qualifications and combinations. Please contact Nottingham Trent University Admissions team for further information.

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

NTU makes contextual offers for this course to give everyone a fair chance to access their chosen degree.

Contextual offers are lower than our standard entry criteria or may be an unconditional offer for courses that require a portfolio. We also take individual circumstances into account when we receive results and may accept grades lower than our published criteria.

We use a range of data from UCAS to make our offers and more information on our approach is available at the link below.

Learn more on the Nottingham Trent University website

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

The tuition fees above are subject to parliamentary procedure. They haven't been confirmed yet, but we expect them to be finalised by May 2026. The level of tuition fees for the second and subsequent years of your undergraduate course may increase in line with inflation and as specified by the UK government.

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