Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Town Planner

Ref: BM291

Location: Altrincham

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a forward thinking and dynamic Town Planning Consultancy who have an established reputation for delivering commercially focused planning advice across the North West and wider UK. They are on the lookout for a Senior Town Planner to hit the ground running for their team in Altrincham.

Benefits for the role of Senior Town Planner include:

• Highly competitive salary
• Generous holiday allowance
• Hybrid working
• Contributory pension scheme
• Professional development
• Personal development

Duties for the role of Senior Town Planner include:

• Providing strategic planning advice to clients on development opportunities and planning risk
• Preparing and reviewing planning appraisals, planning statements and supporting documentation
• Developing and implementing planning strategies for residential and mixed-use developments
• Managing planning applications from inception through to determination
• Leading pre-application discussions and engaging proactively with Local Planning Authorities
• Coordinating multidisciplinary consultant teams and ensuring planning submissions are delivered effectively

Skills and experience for the role of Senior Town Planner:

• A degree in Town Planning or a closely related discipline
• MRTPI status, or be working towards chartership
• Significant experience within a planning consultancy, developer or related environment
• Strong knowledge of the UK planning system and current planning policy
• Experience managing planning applications and projects from inception through to determination
• Experience within the residential development sector would be highly advantageous
• Strong report-writing and communication skills
• The ability to interpret planning policy and provide clear, commercially focused advice
• Excellent project management and organisational skills
• Confidence dealing with clients, planning officers and multidisciplinary consultant teams
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach to planning challenges
• The ability to work independently while also contributing positively to a collaborative team environment

If This role interests you or if you are interested in searching for other roles relating to architecture please feel free to contact Ben Moore on (phone number removed) or email (url removed). There are many more roles available on our website at (url removed). This is a permanent role