Town Planners

5 days ago

Colchester, United Kingdom FPR Group Full time

**Town Planners**

**£23,00 + DOE**

**Negotiable on salary expectations**

**The role**:
Your aim will be to balance the conflicting demands of housing, industrial development, agriculture, recreation, transport and the environment, in order to allow appropriate development to take place. The office is located in Colchester, this successfulfamily run business has an enviable client base of private equity investors and businesses and want to grow with you being part of the team

You will be working in a small team within a larger team in the office. It's a relaxed but professional office environment but it's busy too, which helps maintain the momentum of a thriving and growing company. An opportunity not to be missed

**You will**:

- Cover a broad area of work using many different skills
- Develop creative and original planning solutions to satisfy all parties
- Consult with stakeholders and other interested parties
- Negotiate with council officers, elected councillors and other professionals, such as surveyors and architects
- Research planning policies to guide development
- Draft Planning, Design and Access Statements
- Use information technology systems such as computer-aided design (CAD) or geographical information systems (GIS)
- Attend and present at planning boards, appeals and public inquiries
- Keep up to date with legislation associated with land use
- Schedule available resources to meet planning targets

**Other Essential skills include**:

- Commercially minded.
- Creative thinking, problem-solving and analytical skills to come up with imaginative solutions to planning problems
- A flexible approach and initiative and innovation to respond to changes and come up with regeneration solutions
- Strong report-writing, communication and organisational skills for liaising with colleagues, developers, architects and possibly members of the public
- The ability to both work as part of a team and manage an individual caseload
- Project-management skills
- Self-motivation
- An aptitude for listening to, and negotiating with, a range of people
- The ability to work with accuracy and attention to detail, in order to ensure planning details are exact.

**Qualifications/Experience required**:
MSc in Town Planning from an RTPI Accredited Course (Senior) + at least two years' experience at a local planning authority or private consultancy.

or

BA Hons in transferable course (Junior).

**Salary**:
**Benefits**:

- Access to team bonus scheme and other perks
- 20 days holiday plus bank holidays which include a two-week Christmas closure of the office without having to use your holiday
- A contributory pension
- Travel expenses
- Flexible hours over the week
- Hybrid working on offer
- Team social days out
- Free parking

The ability to travel is essential and access to private vehicle and UK driving license preferred.

**Hours**:

- 32 hours per week with flexible working hours (core hours 10.00am - 4.00pm)

**Sound good? Want to know more?**

FPR Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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