Senior Town Planner

Birmingham

Penguin Recruitment is pleased to be supporting an established Planning Consultancy in the West-Midlands in their hire of an experienced Town Planner to their dynamic team!

The current team work tirelessly to secure planning permission for a wide range of projects across residential, commercial, and retail, ranging from area regeneration to bespoke Listed Building conversions and strategic land promotions.

They are now looking to recruit a Senior Level Planner to their close-knit team, working on a range of exciting projects. Some of your duties will include:

Undertaking planning appraisals.
Attending planning, client, and committee meetings.

Preparing, lodging, and negotiating planning, listed building, conservation area and advertisement applications.
Preparing, submitting, and progressing written representation, hearing and public inquiry appeals.

Undertaking direct access instructions to Counsel.
Preparing Local Development Plan representations including appearance at EIP.

We are seeking candidates with the following skills and qualification:

Degree in Town and Country Planning, or an equivalent environmental based degree.
Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute or working towards membership.

Be a good verbal communicator with excellent people skills.
Excel at report writing and presentation.
Have practical experience of both development management and development plan processes (ideal).
Have a good understanding of the housing and economic markets and how robust planning advice plays a central role in driving land value enhancement (ideal).

On offer to the successful candidate will be a competitive basic salary as well as a generous accompanying benefits package. The team work primarily from the office base in Birmingham, however flexible hybrid working options are also available!

Interested? For applications and more information, please send your up-to-date CV to Megan Field at (url removed) or call (phone number removed).