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Principal Planning Consultant
Location: Shrewsbury
Penguin Recruitment are delighted to be supporting a leading multidisciplinary who are looking to recruit a Principal Planning Consultant. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of planning projects across various sectors, including housing, leisure, energy, and agriculture. This is a key client-facing role, combining technical expertise with exceptional customer service to deliver high-quality planning advice and project leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Client Relationship Management: Take charge of building and maintaining long-term relationships with key clients, offering expert guidance and ensuring smooth project delivery from start to finish.
- Project Leadership: Lead major planning projects, ensuring timely delivery, managing budgets, and maintaining high standards across all phases of work.
- Strategic Planning Advice: Provide expert planning advice, addressing both immediate planning applications and long-term land promotion strategies.
- Documentation: Write and edit planning statements, appeal statements, design and access statements, and other planning reports.
- Land Promotion: Promote land for development through local planning processes, including the local plan review and representations to the local planning authority.
- Environmental Impact Assessments: Manage the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process, contributing to and editing environmental statements.
- Stakeholder Meetings: Attend client, Local Planning Authority (LPA), and other subconsultant meetings, both virtual and in person, to ensure seamless communication and project progress.
- Business Development: Work with senior colleagues to develop new business opportunities and grow client relationships.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Proven Experience: Significant experience in a planning consultancy role, with the ability to manage your own caseload independently and effectively.
- Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of the UK planning system, with additional experience in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) being highly advantageous.
- Professional Qualifications: Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) is essential.
- Excellent Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex planning issues to clients and stakeholders.
- Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently, meet deadlines, and manage client expectations with minimal oversight.
Hours:
37.5 hours per week, with flexible working options available.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
- Paid professional memberships and CPD funding for relevant training and events
- Private healthcare scheme
- Employee assistance program, including health plan and flu jab
- 35 days holiday per year (pro-rata), including bank holidays
- Additional day off for your birthday and extra holidays for every 3 years of service
- Discretionary bonus potential
- Enhanced pension scheme through NEST
- Access to employee loans and discounts on services
- Salary sacrifice schemes for Electric Vehicles and Cycle to Work
Interested?
The hiring manager is looking to meet with suitable candidates ASAP so if you meet the above criteria, please contact Josh Jones on (phone number removed) or (url removed)
