Planner / Senior Planner

**Description**:
**We can offer you**:

- A competitive salary with great benefits including private medical & payment of relevant subscriptions
- A culture of trust, empowerment and autonomy over your work
- The opportunity to join a growing team within an established planning firm, and to help influence our business strategy for the region
- Hybrid working with the flexibility to define working patterns that work for you in and outside the office

Marrons has grown rapidly over the past 5 years to become a top-20 UK planning consultancy, with a team of 50 town planners across our six regional hubs. We also provide complementary socio-economic, heritage, masterplanning and architectural services. We seek ambitious planners to join our South East teamto help drive forward projects and support business development activities.

**The role**:
The Planner / Senior Planner role will be vital in helping to achieve our ambitions, helping to lead projects, build client relations and champion the Marrons brand.

As a Planner / Senior Planner you will continue to develop your career working collaboratively with colleagues within our multi-disciplinary consultancy, alongside having ample opportunities to build client relationships and start developing your own workload.

You will be involved in projects from the outside, working closely with colleagues, clients and other consultants, to manage schemes from initial advice and early design stages, right through to achieving consent and discharge of conditions and planning obligations. There will be opportunities to support and be actively involved in Planning Appeals and Local Plan Examinations.
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**The key duties will be**:

- advising on development potential of land and buildings
- providing policy advice and research
- drafting representations to plan consultations and examinations
- assisting in identify land opportunities
- working with clients and other consultants to deliver development
- supporting business development activities

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**In addition, you will need**:

- a relevant Planning qualification
- membership of RTPI or working towards membership
- an understanding of the planning process and systems
- excellent writing skills with a strong eye for detail and high level of accuracy
- excellent communication skills and a friendly approachable manner
- drive, commitment, enthusiastic and a team player approach

Whether you are an experienced Planner ready to step-up and assist with leading major projects or a Senior Planner looking to expand your capabilities in a new role, we are keen to speak with you.

**Benefits, Agile Working and Additional information**:
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

The role is hybrid, with an expectation to work in an office environment in Kent at least 2 days a week, working around your other commitments.

Our presence in the South East is also supported by our existing hubs in London, Bristol, Southampton and in several other locations across the UK.

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**Additional information**:
**Equal opportunities**
Marrons is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.

**About Marrons**:
Welcome to Marrons, a rapidly growing team of town planning, socio-economic, heritage, master-planning, design and architectural specialists committed to providing expert advice nationwide. We handle planning matters of all types and scales, serving major house builders, developers, manufacturers, investment companies, and more across the UK.

As part of Ampa -the UK’s leading group of legal and professional services companies,
Marrons is integrated into a large multi-disciplinary team comprising lawyers, surveyors, and chartered town planners. Joining us provides access to high-quality training and support for advancing your career in planning consultancy. We prioritise the professional development of our team members and support membership of the RTPI.

Join our dynamic team at Marrons and play a key role in delivering exceptional planning solutions while advancing your career in the field.