Company: Gladman Developments Ltd
Location: Congleton
Salary: Competitive salary DOE & benefits
Web: https://jobs.barrattcareers.co.uk/vacancies/27638/senior-planner.html
Contact Name: Vicki Yates
Email: v.yates@gladman.co.uk
Telephone: 07929043748
Application
Senior Planner
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Senior Planner
Company: Gladman Developments Ltd
Salary: Competitive salary DOE & benefits
Web: https://jobs.barrattcareers.co.uk/vacancies/27638/senior-planner.html
Contact Name: Vicki Yates
Telephone: 07929043748
Application
Senior Planner
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You will often be the lead planner assigned to a site working under a senior project manager/planning director as project lead. You will be involved with formulating the planning strategy for sites and implementing once agreed. The role will require an ability to think strategically and in the short and long term. You will also be expected to delegate effectively and in doing so help with the professional development of junior planners within the team.
Your duties will include:
- Drafting and signing off reports to support planning applications, appeals and policy presentations
- Supporting the planning directors, planning managers and senior project managers as required, but also a wider brief on planning matters as requested by senior colleagues
- Reviewing reports produced by external consultants, providing feedback and final sign off
- Completing research and reading to assist in developing a strategy for the promotion/allocation/planning application of a site.
- Producing well researched and presented reports and representations to assist in the promotion of sites and/or preparing reports to accompany the submission of planning applications
- Attending meetings and interviews with prospective landowners and agents to help secure new sites for the business to then promote
- Setting out planning and engagement strategies for sites, then ensuring their implementation
- Undertaking site visits and meetings with landowners, agents and local authority officers
- Effective management of workload and keeping to task deadlines, this will require delegation of tasks
- Carrying out public engagement, including formal consultation events where necessary
- Assisting planners and graduate planners within your team with any queries they may have in a positive and constructive manner
Co-ordinating and inputting to complex planning research tasks
- Planning degree or equivalent qualification and eligibility for RTPI Membership
- Extensive planning experience, either within a consultancy or local planning environment
- Experience of instructing and negotiating Section 106 agreements
- Experience of working within an environment focused on the promotion of sites through both the Local Plan and planning application process
- Significant experience of preparing reports to support the submission of planning applications and/or the allocation of sites in a Local Plan
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking research projects to support the delivery of a project
- The ability to formulate and implement clear strategies for the promotion of sites, with limited input from senior colleagues
- Understanding of the drivers for growth at the local, regional and national level
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
- The ability to communicate to different audiences
- The ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Effective time management
- Strong organisational and coordination skills
- Ability to build rapport and relationships, both internally and externally
- A strong work ethic
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