Planning Assistant

Job Title: Planning Assistant
Report Line: UK Head of Planning
Department: Planning
Location: London

Wildstone is a leading owner of outdoor media infrastructure. The company’s portfolio of over 5,000 out-of-home advertising assets includes digital advertising screens in a variety of formats, classic billboards, and super premium digital sites. Wildstone buys and rents property sites for outdoor advertising across the UK, Europe, and Australia, helping property owners generate income from their unused land or building facades in high traffic locations.

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We are looking for a proactive full-time Planning Assistant to support the in-house planning team. The role would suit a candidate with one to two years’s work experience after graduating.

• Provide support to the Planning team as required
• Undertake planning due diligence and research
• Review and provide feedback on planning drawings
• Prepare documentation to support planning applications and appeals such as site comparables and heritage statements
• Prepare, submit and negotiate applications and appeals for digital advertising
• Liaise and work with internal departments and external consultants (e.g. planning, highways etc)
• Analyse planning decision notices and provide analysis to the wider business
• Assist in the management of enforcement issues
• Manage and file planning data and information on business systems
• Represent Wildstone at customer, landlord, and local authority meetings, Committee meetings and events where necessary
• Assist with planning reporting
• Keep up to date with relevant planning regulations, policy and legislation
• Undertake CPD and work towards Chartered MRTPI status
• Investigate ways to continually improve processes within the team and business
• Undertake ad hoc planning requests

• One to two years’ work experience in planning
• RTPI accredited degree in Planning or related field of study
• Multi-tasking
• Record-keeping
• Collaborative working
• Salary - competitive
• 25 days Annual Leave (Increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days)
• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme – Totaling 8% contributory
• Death Insurance (3
  * salary)
• Group Income Protection (50%)
• Company Bonus Scheme
• Health insurance, can join after the successful completion of 6 months probationary period

Closing date for submissions: Friday 21st February 2025
Interview dates: w/c 3rd March 2025
Start date: ASAP

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