Core occupations include people who spend almost all their time in activities to do with planning, delivering and managing sustainable communities and associated occupations include people whose contribution is extremely important to successful delivery of sustainable communities but are not involved in delivery full time.

Cross-cutting occupations are occupations that relate to more than one area of sustainable communities, such as economic development and regeneration.

Core Occupations

Implementers and Decision Makers
These include local authorities, members of Local Strategic Partnerships, Regional Assembly members, staff of regional organisations such as One NorthEast, and housing organisations.

Built Environment Occupations
These include: planners (e.g. urban, rural, highways, transport, environmental), urban designers, area masterplanners, architects, engineers, surveyors and construction.

Environmental Occupations
These include environmental officers (such as conservation), environmental advisors (such as English Heritage, Environment Agency, Countryside Agency and Forestry Commission) and environmental managers.

Social Occupations
These include people involved in housing and social services.

Economic Occupations
Developers

Community Occupations
Professional community and voluntary workers and people involved in neighbourhood and community support.

Associated Occupations

These include:

• Broad community occupations (such as employees of business support organisations like Business Link and Chambers of Commerce)
• Built environment and associated professionals (such as contamination and reclamation specialists and recycling and disposal)
• Social Occupations (such as health service professionals)
• Environmental occupations
• Economic occupations
• Law and enforcement
• Community recreation and culture.