Associate Planner

2 months ago


Guildford, United Kingdom Savills Full time

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an RTPI or RICS qualified Senior Planner to join the Savills South East Planning team at an Associate/Associate Director level. The successful candidate would work within the Savills South East Planning Team providing planning services to a wide range of clients in the region. 
The team’s reach is diverse, with a strong pipeline of regionally significant projects including Strategic Urban Extensions, new settlements, major industrial and logistics developments, retail repurposing and town centre regeneration, major urban mixed-use and commercial, in addition to a wide ranging rural / land owner estate portfolios. 

We work for a wide variety of high profile clients, spanning landowners, private individuals, institutions, developers, promoters, national and regional house builders, commercial/leisure operators and investors.

Key Responsibilities

•Draw up, present and negotiate competitive proposals.
•Develop creative and original solutions to satisfy all parties.
•Undertake research and analysis.
•Contribute to the preparation/editing of Design & Access Statements, sustainability statements, and other planning supporting documents. Prepare planning appraisals of land, buildings and concepts.
•Prepare and promote land through the Local Plan process including at Examination in Public.
•Take a proactive and leading role in providing planning advice, preparing planning applications, including Planning Statements, and leading multi-disciplinary consultancy teams.

Key Skills

•5 years Post Qualified (MRICS/MRTPI) experience
•Commercial and entrepreneurial.
•Detail conscious, accurate.
•Proactive, efficient and effective.
• can work to tight deadlines.
•Team player.
•A positive attitude.
•Strives to deliver an exceptional level of service to clients at all times.


Team Overview

This position of Associate is an important strategic role in the South East Planning Team and wider Savills Office – to help deliver, a wide range of exciting and high profile projects. The Savills South East Planning Team, which is one of the largest in the Region and regarded by our clients as a market leader, is an integral part of the biggest planning consultancy in the UK which is over 300 strong with planning specialists covering every land use sector and geographical area in the UK.
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Recruitment agencies

Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.



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