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Job Title: Senior Planner
Location: Leeds
An exciting opportunity has presented itself for an experienced Senior Planner to join a leading planning consultancy in Leeds!
You'll have the chance to work on a wide range of projects including residential, commercial, and mixed-use developments, while gaining client exposure and growing your skills in a supportive and close-knot team!
Duties of the Role:
- Coordinate planning applications, manage consultant inputs, and handle local authority queries.
- Lead pre-application discussions and negotiate with local planning authorities and stakeholders.
- Prepare planning statements, policy reviews, and reports.
- Support planning appeals, including preparing appeal statements, and liaising with legal teams.
- Work closely with developers, landowners, and housebuilders to unlock development potential.
Experience & Skills:
- Previous experience in town planning (public or private sector) at Planner/Senior level.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication, organisational, and negotiation abilities.
- Attention to detail and a proactive, solution-driven approach.
- Client-facing experience and a commercially aware mindset.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary (negotiable based on experience).
- Bonus scheme.
- Flexible working options.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Payment of professional RTPI fees.
- Work Place Pension Scheme (Nest).
Interested? For applications and more information, please send your up-to-date CV to Megan Field at (url removed) or call (phone number removed).
