The categories of occupations used on this website are those identified in the Egan Review (2003) as being the types of people who are involved in creating, delivering and maintaining sustainable communities.
It is possible to filter information by the following types of occupations;
Built Environment Occupations: Includes Planners (urban, rural, highways, transport, environmental), Urban designers, Area masterplanners, Architects (landscape, technicians, architectural liaison officers), Engineers, Surveyors, Construction industry managers, Educators of built environment professionals.
Community Occupations: Professional community and voluntary workers, Community/Neighbourhood wardens and Community Support Wardens
Cross-Cutting Occupations: Those who work across more than one theme for the majority of the time, Egan's examples are Neighbourhood renewal and Regeneration practitioners.
Environmental Occupations: Environmental officers e.g: conservation, tree, play, Environmental advisors (including agencies such as English Heritage, English Nature, Environment Agency) and Environmental Managers in other organisations.
Implementers and Decision Makers: Local authority elected members, Local authority staff, members of Local Strategic Partnerships, Regional Assembly members and staff, Chief Executives and staff of relevant regional organisations e.g. Regional Development Agencies, Regional Housing Board members, Infrastructure managers, Regeneration leaders and delivery vehicles, Chief Executives and staff of relevant national agencies, MPs and civil servants with relevant policy responsibility.
Social Occupations: Managers of housing and social services
Associated Occupations: This group is identified in the Egan Review as being 'extremely important to successful delivery, but who are not involved full time across the planning, delivering and maintaining stages of a sustainable community'. Examples are those working in recreation and culture, educators, police officers, health service managers and staff in local businesses.
Wider Public: This group includes those whose active engagement is essential, particularly in maintaining sustainable communities; this includes local residents, media, members of neighbourhood groups and tenant associations, students and school children.