Senior Planner

**What you'll be doing?**:
Gladman Developments are the UK’s most active and successful land promoter based in Congleton, Cheshire. We believe in using our expertise to partner with landowners to help them to realise the true potential of their land through its development for residential or residential led mixed-use development.

Your duties will include:

- Supporting the Planning Directors, Planning Mangers and Senior Project Managers as required, but also a wider brief on planning matters as requested by senior colleagues.
- Reviewing reports produced by external consultants, providing feedback and final sign off.
- Attending meetings and interviews with prospective landowners and agents to help secure new sites for the business to then promote.
- Setting out planning and engagement strategies for sites, then ensuring their implementation.
- Undertaking site visits and meetings with landowners, agents and local authority officers.
- Effective management of workload and keeping to task deadlines, this will require delegation of tasks.
- Carrying out public engagement, including formal consultation events where necessary.
- Assisting planners and graduate planners within your team with any queries they may have in a positive and constructive manner.
Co-ordinating and inputting to complex planning research tasks.

**What you'll need?**:
To be successful in the role, we are looking for:

- Planning degree or equivalent qualification and eligibility for RTPI Membership.
- Extensive planning experience, either within a consultancy or local planning environment.
- Experience of instructing and negotiating Section 106 agreements.
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking research projects to support the delivery of a project.
- The ability to formulate and implement clear strategies for the promotion of sites, with limited input from senior colleagues.
- Understanding of the drivers for growth at the local, regional and national level.
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to communicate to different audiences.
- The ability to work independently or as part of a team.
- Effective time management.
- Strong organisational and coordination skills.
- Ability to build rapport and relationships, both internally and externally.
- A strong work ethic.

**Our Company and Benefits**:
Gladman Developments are part of Barratt Redrow PLC. With over 30 years' experience in achieving planning permissions, our team have years of professional experience and a wide range of industry contacts, from central government, local councils, professional consultants to major housebuilders.

We operate on a hybrid working basis, with dedicated office days and flexible start and finish times.

We are building an organisation where anyone with drive and talent can pursue the career they want. We are building a culture where anyone, regardless of gender, race, age, sexuality, disability, background or any other characteristic, can progress and be proud to work for us.

As part of working for Gladman Developments and specifically for this role we offer:

- Competitive Salary
- Competitive Bonus Scheme
- Private Medical Cover - Single Cover
- Company Car or Cash Allowance
- Annual Medical Health Assessment
- 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days)
- Choice of Flexible Benefits
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policies