Senior Planning Manager

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6234
• Entity: Vistry
• Region: Vistry Central Home Counties
• Department: Land & Planning
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
• Date Posted: 07.10.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planning Manager to join our Land & Planning team within Vistry Central Home Counties, at our office in Broxbourne. As our Senior Planning Manager, you will help co-ordinate and project manage planning and various consultant team inputs required to promote and implement the large-scale development sites within the Central Home Counties portfolio.

We are pleased to say, this role can accommodate agile working arrangements.

• Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
  • Agile working possible (dependent on role)
  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Private Healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
  • Share incentive schemes
  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
• In return, what we would like from you...
  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • BA/BSc (Hons) Planning Studies and/or postgrad Diploma in Planning Studies
  • Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute
  • Relevant experience in a consultancy or development company, demonstrating site appraisal/negotiation/communication skills and knowledge of planning/legal process
  • Some public sector experience would be an advantage
• More about the Senior Planning Manager role...
  • Project manage the promotion of strategic development sites through the planning
  • system, including the preparation of Local Plan and other representations to local authorities.
  • Coordinate preparation of planning submissions, including planning applications, EIAs, planning appeals etc., and negotiations with local planning authority and other statutory authorities on s106 agreements and conditions.
  • Monitor and manage compliance with, and discharge of, planning conditions. Monitoring and management of Section 106 agreements.
  • Manage and instruct consultants to an agreed scope of works.
  • Prepare and manage budgets for strategic development sites.
  • Chair and lead project meetings as required by Project Director.
  • Liaise, consult and negotiate with relevant external organisations, including co-ordinating public/community consultation and stakeholder events, and liaison with/presentation to elected Members.
  • Monitor Central and Local Government policies, guidance and advice.
  • Provide advice and assistance to colleagues and trainees/graduates on planning matters.
  • Assist in the identification and promotion of new strategic development opportunities and provide advice to the Director as required.
  • Ensure continued professional development to meet MRTPI or equivalent requirements.
  • Undertake other duties as required.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...

We’re Vistry Group, the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they’re needed most.

You’re probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there’s nowhere better to build your career. We’re proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.

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Benefits

Agile Working

Offers a flexible way of working.

Annual Leave

Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.

Pension with Legal & General

Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.

Volunteer Days

With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.

Why Vistry

Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.