Senior Planner

Role Overview

Savills in Scotland is looking to add a senior planner to its Planning Team to assist with a growing and diverse portfolio of instructions. We are looking for someone with up to 5 years experience, MRTPI and/or RICS qualified and ideally with experience in the renewable energy sector and with EIA project management/assistant project management experience. Typically, your role will involve managing your own workload, assisting the senior team members on large instructions, EIA co-ordination and screening and scoping exercises, undertaking planning research and enquiries, drafting and finessing reports and planning submissions (site assessments, policy notes, applications, appeals, development plan representations and so on) as well as assisting with the management of the team’s caseload and its business development activities. The role is Glasgow based with an element of hybrid working an option.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare planning appraisals of land, buildings and concepts.
• Undertake research and analysis.
• Prepare planning applications, including planning statements.
• Write reports, interpreting data and making clear and relevant recommendations.
• EIA project management/assistant project management including Screening and Scoping reports.
• Liaise and negotiate with planning officers, employees of consultee organisations, third parties.
• Liaise and cultivate good relationships with clients and fellow professionals.
• Develop creative and original solutions to satisfy all parties.
• Ensure compliance with planning regulations.
• Communicate and negotiate effectively with clients and colleagues.
• Take responsibility for projects from the earliest stages through to completion.
• Maintain an awareness of market conditions and the impact of government policies.
• Keep informed about documents relating to planning policy and practice.
• Build relationships with other divisions within Savills.
• Attend external events to create local contacts and identify business opportunities.

Key Skills

• MRTPI and/or MRICS, with up to 5 years’ post-qualification experience.
• An enjoyment of writing, with excellent language skills and ability to effectively communicate planning arguments.
• A proven ability to multi-task, across many projects, helping to steer the team’s workload, managing projects capably – and reporting to directors, associate directors and associates in this team.
• A willingness and enthusiasm for mentoring and guiding junior planning and graduate level colleagues.

Team Overview

Savills is a leading property conultancy practice with offices accross Scotland and the UK and a wide range of existing corporate, landowner and public sector clients. This position of Senior Planner is an important role in the Scottish Planning Team - one of the largest in the country - to help deliver a wide range of exciting and high profile projects. The Scottish Planning Team works on a wide range of projects across the country from offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Perth. While a large part of the role will be devoted to our diverse range of existing renewable energy projects, successful candidates can also expect to work on other projects including city centre regeneration, strategic land, retail, rural and logistics.

To arrange an informal chat about the position, please request via a message in our application system

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Recruitment agencies

Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.