Description
We are seeking a Senior Town Planner to join our Major Projects Planning and Development Team within Planning Consultancy. As a Senior Town Planner, you will work on landmark projects nationally and internationally, providing commercial planning and development advice to private and public sector clients. You will be responsible for devising planning strategies, assessing site's planning history and relevant planning policies, preparing briefing notes, drafting planning statements, reviewing third-party documents, assisting with multidisciplinary teams, attending site visits and client meetings, managing project delivery and budgetary control, joining negotiations with planning authorities, and working collaboratively with colleagues.
Responsibilities:
- Devising planning strategies, assessing site's planning history and relevant planning policies contained within a development plan;
- Preparing briefing notes that set out the likelihood of achieving planning permission;
- Drafting planning statements in a clear and persuasive way, to support development proposals;
- Reviewing third-party documents and other planning deliverables to ensure consistency and validity;
- Assisting with the planning aspects in multidisciplinary teams delivering planning projects;
- Attending site visits, design team and client meetings;
- Managing project delivery and budgetary control;
- Joining negotiations with planning authorities and other planning stakeholders;
- Working collaboratively with colleagues from across WSP, and external organisations;
- Monitoring planning applications and liaising with clients and teams to respond to consultation feedback.
Requirements:
- Degree level qualification in town planning and/or postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject;
- Chartered status (MRTPI/MRICS);
- Sound knowledge and experience of the UK planning system, gained in either a local authority or private sector setting;
- Good technical and IT skills;
- A commercial approach to planning consultancy and development;
- A desire to work in a growing planning team, surrounded and supported by a raft of fellow professionals;
- Good organisational and communication skills.