Job Title: Strategic Planner
Location: Severn Valley
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Strategic Planner and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
We're one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.
At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as an Accounts Assistant, you'll benefit from:
* Competitive salary
* 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
* Life Cover & Contributory Pension
* Bonus
* Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
* Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
We are looking to recruit a Strategic Planner to join the Land Team. This role reports to Planning Director and will have contact with Planning Consultants, Local Authorities, Local Planning Officers and members of the public.
The purpose of the role is to primarily required to carry out planning and development appraisals, planning applications and land promotion within the residential sector for both immediate and strategic sites.
The role will include:
* Producing site assessments, detailed examination of planning histories, policy analysis, interpretation and consideration of material considerations, and new site appraisals for immediate and strategic sites in good time to maintain the relationship with the Land team and protect the interests of the company.
* Prepare and project manage different types of planning applications from Outline/Full and Reserved Matters to the discharge of planning conditions accurately so that the Region can maintain new sites to develop
* Liaise and brief internal layout designers, external consultants and officers at Local Planning Authorities prior, during and post submission in order to develop strong working relationships
* Prepare Design & Access Statements and a range of other planning documents required to support applications accurately and on time so the business can continue to gain positive planning consents
* Organise supporting information and attend required stakeholder/public consultation events with professionalism at all times to build confidence with the general public
* Formulating planning strategies to promote medium and long term development sites through the plan-making process under the guidance of the Planning Manager to continue a pipeline of new sites for the region
* On occasion to deputise for the Senior Planner to provide support and assistance to the team
* Monitor development plan progress and the 5 year land supply within each Local Planning Authority
What experience, qualifications and skills are we looking for?
* Previous experience working in the private or public sector in the field of planning policy / Local Plan / strategic land
* Degree / Masters Planning Degree with an RTPI accreditation and a rounded knowledge of planning
* Ability to adapt to change and to work accurately and efficiently under pressure
* Excellent verbal communication skills
* Full UK driving licence
What's in it for you?
The Salary & Benefits package
* Salary competitive (DOE)
* Company car or car allowance
* Contributory pension
* Life cover
* Healthcare
* Bonus
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