Senior Planning Consultant

Location: Cheshire West and Chester

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Consulting in Planning, hybrid working from Chester OR Newcastle with #WFH for employee-owned leading national planning and environmental consultancy with a passion for delivering intelligent and innovative development.

They work across all major sectors, including commerce and industry, low carbon solutions, energy, and infrastructure. You can be proud to join a firm that are renowned for strategic thinking linked to expert delivery to fulfil clients’ needs and produce sustainable solutions.

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The Senior Planning Consultant job itself, where you will be working on a variety of projects, supporting senior staff and directors on major project work, providing direct client advice on sites and projects, drafting reports and planning submissions (site assessments, policy notes, applications, development plan representations, and Environmental Statements) and assisting with the management of the team’s caseload. More specifically:

Assisting senior staff and directors to drive forward major projects

Managing small to medium-sized planning applications

Undertaking research and analysis

Preparing planning appraisals of land, buildings and concepts

Preparing planning reports and planning applications

Liaising with planning officers, employees of consultee organisations and third parties

Liaising and cultivating good relationships with clients, colleagues and fellow professionals

Developing creative and original solutions

Taking financial responsibility for small to medium-sized projects from inception through to completion

Remaining informed about documents relating to planning policy and practice

Attending external events and providing presentations

This is a great opportunity to progress your career, working on a diverse portfolio of projects for prestigious clients and alongside the very best planning professionals.

You will have

To excel as a Senior Planning Consultant, you will be an experienced Planner with a healthy mix of the following:

Degree-qualified in a relevant field with a genuine enthusiasm for planning

5-10 years of experience working in the private or public sector

Strong understanding of the principles of planning

Adept at presentations and technical writing

A problem-solver

Great communicator

Creative thinker

You will get

As a Senior Planning Consultant, you will enjoy a competitive salary of £35K- £45K + Package

Hybrid / Flexible working Bonuses - discretionary EOT - Employee ownership trust - first 3.5k Private healthcare Enhanced maternity/Paternity Pension scheme - salary sacrifice Cycle to work scheme

25 days holiday, rising to 26 days after 1 year and 27 days

You can apply

to the Senior Planning Consultant position by pushing the button on this job posting, or by sending your CV in confidence to (url removed)