Associate Planner

Role Overview

The successful candidate would work within the Savills Birmingham Planning Team providing planning services to a wide range of clients in the Midlands. The team’s reach is diverse, with a strong pipeline of regionally significant projects including Strategic Urban Extensions, new settlements, major industrial and logistics developments, retail repurposing and town centre regeneration, major urban mixed-use and commercial, in addition to a wide ranging rural / land owner estate portfolios. We work for a wide variety of high profile clients, spanning landowners, private individuals, institutions, developers, promoters, national and regional house builders, commercial/leisure operators and investors.

Key Responsibilities

• Draw up, present and negotiate competitive proposals.
• Develop creative and original solutions to satisfy all parties.
• Undertake research and analysis.
• Contribute to the preparation/editing of Design & Access Statements, sustainability statements, and other planning supporting documents. Prepare planning appraisals of land, buildings and concepts.
• Prepare and promote land through the Local Plan process including at Examination in Public.  

Key Skills

• 5 years Post Qualified (MRICS/MRTPI) experience
• Commercial and entrepreneurial.
• Detail conscious, accurate.
• Proactive, efficient and effective.
• can work to tight deadlines.
• Team player.

Team Overview 

This position of Associate is an important strategic role in the Birmingham Planning Team and wider Savills Birmingham Office – to help deliver, a wide range of exciting and high profile projects. The Savills Birmingham Planning Team, which is one of the largest in the Region and regarded by our clients as a market leader, is an integral part of the biggest planning consultancy in the UK which is over 300 strong with planning specialists covering every land use sector and geographical area in the UK.

The successful candidate will work in our new multi-service office located at 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham. The Savills Birmingham Office is growing rapidly and is now almost 170 strong. This is an exciting and rare opportunity for the successful candidate to experience working as an Associate planner within a truly cradle to grave development environment alongside colleagues in Development (residential and commercial), Industrial & Logistics, Office agency, Investment, Building Surveying and Project management, Capital Markets, Property Management and others.

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