Planner or Senior Planner

Planner or Senior Planner

Location: Manchester

Penguin Recruitment are delighted to be supporting one of the most successful and long-established land promoters.

Our client is looking for an experienced planner or senior planner to join the land and development team. They have an extensive land portfolio with a strong appetite to continue to grow the business and a planner or senior planner will play a key role in helping to drive the business forward. The key focus will be on strategic land promotion for both their owned stock and that of their landowner partners and identifying and assessing new opportunities.

They are a family-owned business and have an excellent track record of delivering fantastic results for their landowner partners. As a family-owned business they take great pride in the relationships they build with their landowner partners and take great care to manage those relationships through each and every project. This personable approach is a fundamental principle of how they operate.

As part of the Land and Development Team the successful candidate will be expected to have good knowledge and experience of the planning system and planning promotion, be that via local plan promotion and / or planning applications and appeals.

They are only a small team and whilst planning is the primary focus of the role there will also be the opportunity to get involved in other aspects of the development process (i.e. acquisition, disposal and development itself) should that be of interest.

If you are looking for a new challenge and would like to get involved in all aspects of strategic land promotion, we would love to hear from you.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

The key responsibilities shall include:

• Site search and planning appraisals for new opportunities
• Manage the planning promotion of existing and new sites through the planning system including local plan promotion, planning applications and appeals
• Manage the consultant team throughout the planning promotion of each project
• Liaise with local planning authorities during the course of planning applications
• Advise and negotiate Section 106 Agreements
• Attend planning committee meetings and present where required
• Manage relationships with promotion partners and landowners
• Provide planning support during the disposal process

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience of working in a planning role; be it for the public sector or a developer, promoter or consultancy
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to multi-task, work to tight timescales and use initiative to manage workload
• Proficient IT skills
• Possession of driving license

If this Planner or Senior Planner role is of interest, please contact Joel Bland on or call to discuss further!