About the job

Description

Andy File Associates Limited is working as a Recruitment Agency on behalf of our client with regards this permanent position.

Salary: dependent on experience and in line with the local market rate

Location: Bristol

Our client is looking for an energetic and confident planner with a genuine interest in progressing their career through to RTPI Chartership with long-term ambitions to grow and expand their skills and responsibility within the company, this role would ideally suit a planner who is looking to develop themselves into a Senior Planner role, or a Senior Planner who wants to work in an exciting and forward-looking team.Our client provides excellent opportunities for staff, with training opportunities including a mentoring scheme for chartership through the L-APC process with excellent first-time success rates to enable staff to develop quickly with over 25% of the staff having worked for the company for longer than 10 years.Their Planning Team currently consists of 10 planners, of which 7 are chartered based across the Bristol, Sheffield and Manchester Offices and they continue to grow.

They are a supportive friendly team with a mix of levels, ages, genders. Our client is active in multiple sectors, focused in Net Zero infrastructure (an active and growing sector as they advance towards the legally binding 2050 target) including renewable energy development (solar, wind, battery energy storage), nuclear, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, EV charging, advanced waste management facilities (waste to energy & waste to fuels), plus a range of work in the residential, leisure and government sectors.Their client base continues to grow and diversify with a strong pipeline of projects coming forward. Employees here have multiple opportunities to learn from experienced colleagues and take on projects of their own including extensive opportunities to work with internal technical teams to deliver multi-disciplinary projects having autonomy and ownership over their own projects with strong support from senior team members so that staff can develop in a structured environment at their own pace.This sets our client apart from larger consultancies, where employees can often feel bogged down in a role as a report writer with a lack of autonomy to take on management of their own projects and clients. They provide genuine career progression opportunities.

The candidate should ideally live in or around Bristol and will be keen to attend networking events and get involved in the planning and development scene in Bristol. The Bristol Central office is in its infancy so there is a genuine opportunity for a planner to join the team at the start of the curve but with support from a well-established nationwide planning team and be central to the Bristol office growth and so grow their own career and standing in the south-west.

• Their office is a vibrant space with state-of-the-art facilities.
• Preferred work pattern is Hybrid working 4 days in the office and 1-day WFH.

As part of the early interview process, they would be keen to invite candidates to the office to show them around and have an informal first chat with them.

The role

As a Senior/Planning Consultant you will be a key individual in the Planning team working closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team in addition to managing your own planning projects and speaking with clients. This role would ideally be for an individual who relishes a challenge and enjoys working in a supportive team to deliver successful outcomes for all of our clients.

Your brief will include:

• The preparation and co-ordination of Planning applications
• Client meetings and site visits
• Preparation of Planning feasibility reviews
• Preparation and submission of planning representations for site identification within Local Development Plans
• Preparation of discharge of Planning Condition submissions
• Input into the preparation of EIA documents

You should ideally have:

• Experience of working in this type of role preferably within planning consultancy, ideally2 years to 3 years of experience
• Experience of writing up planning statements and project management
• Good communication skills
• Be working towards becoming a member of MRTPI, if not already a member

Additional Requirements:

• The candidate should have a full UK Driving Licence
• Eligibility to work and reside in the UK

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