Senior Planner – Cambridge

Senior Planner – Cambridge

£35,000 - £45,000 + tailored benefits package

We’re delighted to announce that an exciting opening for a Senior Planner has arisen in our client’s Cambridge office.

You’ll be joining on of the country’s largest independent Planning consultancies, with several offices across the UK. The Senior Planner will become a part of a flourishing Cambridge Planning team, working on schemes covering East Anglia and the outskirts of London. You’ll play a key role in helping to build on the team’s success to date in delivering high quality complex planning solutions to a wide range of developers, funds and commercial operators.

The Senior Planner will be expected to play a key role in delivering planning solutions on a broad range of projects, assisting the senior team in developing both new and existing client relationships. The successful candidate will join this supportive team environment to work on a diverse range of projects in the residential, commercial, energy and infrastructure sectors, of various types and scales, including exciting regeneration, urban renewal and place making opportunities.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Promoting strategic residential, commercial, energy and infrastructure developments (both Brownfield and Greenfield) and coordinating professional teams in the preparation and submission of major planning applications
• Preparing and Submitting representations to Local Plans
• Co-ordination of project teams and project management
• Conducting research and site appraisals on projects for our client base
• Preparation, submission and negotiation of planning applications
• Preparation of planning and economic statements
• Assisting in preparing thought leadership pieces and presentations to develop new and existing client relationships, and
• Further raising the team’s profile and Business Development across the region

It is essential that candidates:

• Are MRTPI qualified (preferable)
• Have strong planning experience, particularly working on residential developments, preferably in consultancy
• Ability to quickly appraise site constraints and identify risks/solutions to development projects
• Have an interest in business development and networking opportunities
• Are committed and have an eye for detail
• An ability to apply NPPF criteria of Sustainable Development in absence of Local Plan
• Knowledge of Planning in London/London Plan policies (preferable)

The Senior Planner will be rewarded for their hard work with a top salary package with benefits tailored to their needs. The company encourages and rewards individual initiative and autonomy within a context of teamwork and collaboration, with genuine career opportunities based on merit. If you perform well, with an infectious passion for planning and an entrepreneurial drive, the Senior Planner will find themselves at Associate grade in no time at all.

For more information on this role, send a copy of your CV to Jon Taylor via Info@Jontaylorassociates.co.uk. Alternatively, please feel free to give Jon a call for an informal chat about the opportunity and an overview on the planning market – 01792 484 444.