# Principal/Associate Town Planner

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Leeds, West Yorkshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal/Associate Town Planner to join our Planning Consultancy team in Leeds. As a Senior or Principal Planner, you will have a good knowledge and experience of the planning process, including planning applications, permitted development, policy frameworks, and plan promotion.

Responsibilities:

- Devising planning strategies, assessing site's planning history, and relevant planning policies

- Preparing briefing notes on the likelihood of achieving planning permission

- Drafting planning statements to support development proposals

- Leading planning aspects in multidisciplinary teams

- Attending site visits, design team, and client meetings

- Managing project delivery and budgetary control

- Collaborating with colleagues from across WSP

- Monitoring planning applications and liaising with clients and teams

Requirements:

- Degree level qualification in town planning

- Chartered status (MRTPI / NIPA)

- Sound knowledge and experience of the UK planning system

- Strong technical skills

- Commercial approach to planning consultancy and development

- Strong organisational and communication skills

## Skills

### Required
- town planning
- planning applications
- policy frameworks
- plan promotion
- project management

### Nice to have
- chartered status (MRTPI / NIPA)
- commercial approach to planning consultancy

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