Planning Consultant

Role Overview

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced planning to join our market leading team based in Bristol. The successful candidate would work within the the team providing planning services to a wide range of clients in the South West region. . The team’s reach is diverse, with a strong pipeline of regionally significant projects including residential development, major industrial and logistics developments, retail repurposing and town centre regeneration, major urban mixed-use and commercial, in addition to a wide ranging rural / land owner estate portfolios. We work for a wide variety of high profile clients, spanning landowners, private individuals, institutions, developers, promoters, national and regional house builders, commercial/leisure operators and investors.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare planning appraisals of land, buildings and concepts
• Prepare planning applications, including planning statements.
• Prepare and promote land through the Local Plan process including at Examination in Public.
• Write reports, interpreting data and making clear, relevant recommendations.
• Liaise and negotiate with planning officers, employees of consultee organisations and third parties.

Key Skills

• MRTPI and/or MRICS qualified, or in the process of qualifying. 
• Excellent verbal and written skills and ability to effectively communicate planning arguments.
• A proven ability to multi-task, across many projects, helping to steer the team’s workload, managing projects capably – and reporting to directors, associate directors and associates in this team.
• A willingness and enthusiasm for mentoring and guiding junior planning and graduate level colleagues

Team Overview

The Savills Bristol Planning Team is a team of 20, which is one of the largest in the Region and regarded by our clients as a market leader, is an integral part of the biggest planning consultancy in the UK which is over 300 strong with planning specialists covering every land use sector and geographical area in the UK. 

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