Job Title: Development Planner
Location: Plymouth, PL6
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Development Planner and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
What is the role?
The purpose of the role is to carry out planning and development appraisals, prepare and submit planning and other related applications within the residential sector for both immediate and strategic sites.
What you'll do as a Development Planner
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 a timely manner to meet required deadlines 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
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
Project manage
What experience do I need?
Previous experience working in the private or public sector in the field of development management / planning policy or land buying
Degree / Masters Planning Degree with an RTPI accreditation, or RICS accreditation, and a rounded knowledge of the industry
Ability to adapt to change and to work accurately and efficiently under pressure
Excellent verbal communication skills
Full UK driving licence
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