Associate Planner​/Associate Director – Research and Analysis

Associate Planner / Associate Director – Research and Analysis Bedford or Sheffield

Terms:

Permanent role

Location:

Bedford or Sheffield
£:
Negotiable

DLP is one of the UK’s leading employee-owned planning-led practices, providing tailored multidisciplinary advice to our clients across the development sector.

Joining DLP brings with it the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside skilled professionals who will provide you with essential guidance and support to grow your career as a professional planner. You will also have the ability to work for a wide variety of clients and projects across both the private and public sectors and alongside colleagues in the wider DLP Group’s core business sectors which include:

• Town Planning
• Transport & Infrastructure
• Sustainability Engineering

The range of benefits that we offer to our employees includes flexible working, private healthcare with BUPA, life insurance, company salary sacrifice pension, cycle to work scheme, contributions towards professional subscriptions and enhanced maternity scheme.

Who are we looking for?

Due to continued growth in workload DLP Planning Ltd are seeking to recruit an Associate Planner or Associate Director to the Company’s Research & Analysis (R&A) team . The position will be based at either of DLP’s Sheffield or Bedford Offices, but the flexibility of virtual working will allow the candidate to work nationally, providing advice and guidance to all DLP offices and clients across the country.

The Research & Analysis Team’s work is based on providing support for planning applications and appeals, the promotion of land for development and preparation of planning policy as part of work across the private and public sectors. We undertake a broad range of work including demographic analysis, assessments of housing and employment need and supply, and socio-economic analysis. We make recognised contributions to key strategic debates within the planning sector.

These include encouraging cooperation beyond local authority boundaries, managing the release of land from the Green Belt for development and seeking to increase housing delivery and meet specialist housing needs, such as affordable housing or housing for older people.

If these topics reflect your interests and experience this role may be suitable for you.

As a specialist team within DLP Planning we provide public and private sector clients with support and assistance in the following areas:

• Housing needs and land availability assessments, including the preparation and critique of household and population projections
• 5-year housing land supply assessments, including expert witness planning appeal support
• Specialist housing need assessments and surveys: older persons’ housing and care beds, local affordable housing, student housing, houses in multiple occupation (HMOs)
• Employment needs and land availability assessments
• Economic impact and benefits assessments
• Health impact assessments
• Strategic site searches and site promotion
• Sustainability appraisals
• Retail needs and impact assessments
• Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan preparation and support

Our recent work has concentrated on the production of five year housing land supply evidence, establishing housing need, interrogating the need and supply for employment land and illustrating the economic impact of development proposals. We regularly contribute to, attend and influence Local Plan Examinations and Planning Appeals in relation to these matters, as well as undertaking bespoke research commissions.

We support our staff with a very active training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme which is intended to educate, inform and invite feedback.

Our CPD programme involves presentations from both external speakers and internal staff members, with all staff encouraged to present on a relevant topic to develop their presentation skills.

Every staff member is formally reviewed at least annually. During this process, achievements and future targets are reflected upon and discussed – always with the aim of learning and moving forward.

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