2025 Savills Graduate Programme

**Job title**

Graduate Planner

**Start Date**

September 2025

**Job Locations**

Glasgow, Reading, Oxford, Bristol, Brighton, Guildford, Manchester, London, Birmingham, Leeds, Chelmsford, Cambridge, Southampton, Wimborne

**Salary**

£30,000 and £1,500 sign on bonus / £27,000 and £1,000 sign on bonus Dependent on Location and the cost of living

**Current Team Information**

With nearly 300 planners across the UK, we are the largest planning department in any mainstream real estate practice with a reputation for success and professionalism.

We work with all types of property, but have specialisms in urban mixed use, housing, retail, major sports venues, energy, master planning, urban design, environmental impact assessment, community engagement, heritage and Section 106 agreements/Community Infrastructure Levy.

We negotiate planning permissions for everything from major urban regeneration schemes to modest domestic extensions. Our department consists of planners skilled in assembling evidence and building a case to achieve planning permission from local authorities, planning inspectors and government ministers.

Planning role locations:
London - Head Office (Margaret Street) Heritage and Townscape Team - The UK has a rich and complex built environment. When considering the purchase, disposal or development potential of a site, understanding the complexities of the associated archaeological, built heritage and townscape context is crucial. In doing so, you gain an accurate reading of the opportunity and value, and have the ability to realise contextually responsive proposals for the site; in turn this avoids unwelcome surprises.

The Heritage & Townscape team at Savills have the specialist knowledge and unrivalled expertise to ensure our clients have the best possible guidance throughout the planning, development and transactional processes. We take great pride in our robust, personable and commercially minded advocacy, ensuring the intricate topics of archaeology, built heritage and townscape are approachable and remain clearly communicated. We take the lead, confidently articulating and negotiating associated considerations, utilising our professional experience with external parties on behalf of colleagues, project teams and our clients. This ensures all remain informed throughout streamlined planning, development and transactional processes.

We are a team of 10 specialist consultants with varied backgrounds that have an incredibly collegiate approach to the exciting work that we do. We work with development teams to find alternative uses, as well secure the sale and development potential of some of the most sensitive buildings / structures and areas in the UK. This involves historic research and design advice, including the articulation of development potential and likely impacts based on proposals and our understanding of intended change. The work we do is diverse and allows you to see some of the most architecturally and historically significant built and natural environments in the UK. The work requires attention to detail and excellent written and verbal communication.

Click here to hear from one of our London Planning Graduates

Click here to hear from our Birmingham Planning team and here to hear from a Birmingham Graduate

Click here to hear from one of our Planning Graduates in Brighton

Click the links, to hear from our colleagues, Alex and Ewan in Glasgow

Southampton

Click here to hear from one of our Planning Graduates in Southampton

We also have roles in Leeds, Reading, Wimborne, Manchester, Cardiff, Bristol, Guildford, Oxford

**About this role**

**How you’ll make an impact**

Good communication and organisational skills and a proactive approach are vital to succeed as a Planning Graduate. You will need that ability to manage a varied workload working as part of a team, while also having the ability to use your own initiative, and be passionate about delivering the best service possible for your clients.

Your skills will include:

- Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills
- Ability to empower those around them
- A team player with leadership potential
- Ability to challenge in a positive way
- Strategic approach to problem solving
- Ability to Listen to others and Collaborate effectively
- Highly motivated
- Computer literate

Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and diversity in our graduate intake - so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself.

**Training**

We provide comprehensive training and revision programmes to support you passing your Royal Town Planning Institute Assessment of Professional Competency (APC) and you will be allocated a mentor to guide you through this process.

During the two year training programme you will work with people in the Planning department to build up a variety of experience and contacts to be