Senior Planner

A well established and growing regional house builder are looking for a Planning Manager / Senior Planner to join their planning department, to help support in the delivery of regional planning and profit targets, identifying opportunities for cost savings from meeting conditions and reserved matters in the most cost-effective manner.

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Senior Planner Duties: Supporting the Design & Technical Team to deliver the regional planning and profit targets.

Monitoring the individual programme and co-ordinating and managing the necessary actions in conjunction with the design and technical teams and (where necessary) the town planning team.

Liaising with the local authorities and agreeing mechanisms and action plans with local authority staff to discharge all individual conditions and consents that are necessary to implement a site consent.

Discharging all necessary 'pre start' Section 106 obligations or requirements.

Chasing progress and coordinating activity and liaisons across the company functions so as to ensure that programmes are adhered to.

Chasing progress by local authorities and external agencies to maintain programmes and discharge individual tasks.

Preparing a monthly progress report of all relevant schemes and highlighting progress or slippage against original estimates. xwzovoh

Senior Planner Specification: Full UK Driving Licence Post qualification experience in a planning role (developer, consultant or LPA) Project management experience of major residential / residential led mixed use development schemes Ability to persuade and negotiate (written and verbal) Excellent interpersonal communication skills A minimum of 3 years working for a Developer or local authority.