TPP Senior Route Applications Deadline
Those TPS members planning to apply for the TPP qualification by the Senior Route need to get going with finalising their submissions.  The next application deadline is Friday 1 July.  Anyone missing this will have to wait until early 2012 before they can submit their application. 

Five New TPS TPPs
Five members of TPS have been awarded the TPP qualification, one  - Jonathan Parker – by the Senior Route and four by the Professional Review Interview route; David Lacey Joanna Mole and Simone Pope, all of whom are with Halcrow, and Michael Chadney who is with Arup.  Jonathan Parker is a Director of Integrated Transport Planning, ITP.

Nick Richardson TPP Joins the TPP Professional Standards Committee
TPS Director and Treasurer Nick Richardson has been appointed to the TPP Professional Standards Committee, the joint TPS/CIHT committee that managers the TPP.  A Project Director with Moot McDonald, he is also responsible for managing the TPS Professional Development Scheme within Motts.  Nick replaces Martin Richards TPP, the Society’s Skills Director, who has stood down having been a member of the Committee since it was formed in 2008, and the Working Group that preceded it, as a step towards the full retirement he has been planning for some time.   The Society’s other nominated members of the Committee are Gilly Otlet TPP and former TPS Chairs Keith Mitchell TPP and Bill Wyley.

URS Adopts the TPS PDS for all UK Offices
URS’ licence for the TPS Professional Development Scheme has been extended to include all the former Scott Wilson offices, enabling Scott Wilson’s transport planners to join the PDS, now they are part of URS.