Senior 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

• Prepare planning appraisals of land, buildings and concepts
• Prepare planning applications, including planning statements.
• Prepare and promote land through the Local Plan process including at Examination in Public.
• Write reports, interpreting data and making clear, relevant recommendations.
• Liaise and negotiate with planning officers, employees of consultee organisations and third parties.

Key Skills 

• MRTPI and/or MRICS, with up to 5 years’ post-qualification experience.
• Excellent verbal and written 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 

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. Management and others. 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 a Senior 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

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