Graduate Planner

Lanpro; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

CPD support

Central offices

Career progression

Job summary

Lanpro Group is seeking a Graduate Planner to support the planning team on applications and projects. You will develop core competencies with guidance from colleagues as you build your career within a multidisciplinary environmental consultancy.

The role offers hybrid working, central city offices, and opportunities to progress through defined promotion windows. An RTPI accredited degree or masters is preferred, with early industry exposure encouraged.

Qualifications

• RTPI accredited degree or Masters in a related discipline.
• Experience in the planning industry, even if only through a placement.
• Strong communication, client liaison, and negotiation skills.
• Good project management and report writing abilities.

Responsibilities

• Draft planning applications, pre-application enquiries and appeals.
• Undertake basic planning appraisals and research.
• Prepare fee proposals to generate new business.
• Review Local Plans and their stage of production.
• Assist clients throughout the planning process and with community engagement.
• Communicate with stakeholders involved in the planning process.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Client liaison skills

Negotiation skills

Project management skills

Report writing skills

Understanding of UK planning process

Education

RTPI accredited degree or Masters in a related discipline

Job description

About Lanpro Group

The Lanpro Group was established in November 2025 following its acquisition by a private equity investor. Bringing Lanpro and CarneySweeney together under a single group structure, the platform was founded with a shared ambition to become the UK’s largest independent, planning-led multidisciplinary environmental consultancy. This growth strategy continued with the acquisition of Create Consulting in February 2026, further strengthening the Group’s capabilities and expanding its multidisciplinary offering.

The Group has offices in Norwich, London, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, York, Bath, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter and Chelmsford.

It's multidisciplinary service spans across multiple disciplines. Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Ecology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Landscape Architecture, Architecture & Design, Arboriculture, Visualisation, Historic Environment, Acoustics, Air Quality, Civil Engineering, Geo-environmental, MEP Building Services, Structures, Sustainability, Transport & Highways, Utilities, Water & Flood Risk.

The Lanpro Group offers an environment that is diverse, entrepreneurial and encourages innovation and professional development.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

As a Graduate Planner you will provide support to the wider planning team on planning applications and projects. With the support of colleagues, you will develop core competencies to help you consolidate your technical skills and confidence as you build your career.

Developing ourselves and others

• Is proactive with regards to ongoing development of personal technical competence which they can apply to their work
• Acquires practical knowledge and expertise by learning on the job.
• Applies standard principles, practices, and techniques to follow established procedures.
• Plans, schedules, and monitors own work within agreed deadlines.
• Keeps up to date with current developments within own areas of expertise as well as gaining a wider knowledge of the company.

Collaboration and innovation

• Provides reliable technical / process input on own initiative but able to determine when work should be escalated to a higher level.
• Liaises and assists other team members who are also developing.
• Prepares letters, reports and others documents under supervision and/or from standard templates.
• Carries out site visits where required.

Defining our future

• Understands the Lanpro strategy, has knowledge of their area of disciplines business plan and where the role fits within the plan.
• Able to put forward ideas which can help improve the business, by suggesting new ways of working or better use of technology or automation.

Delivering our projects

• Operates within a defined area of work and provides support to their team as required.
• Understands the fundamentals of project management and Rapport and how this applies to their work and commercial impact of these.
• Responsible for the completion of specifically assigned tasks to time and cost whilst working within established routines and principles.
• Drafting planning applications, pre-application enquiries and appeals.
• Undertaking basic planning appraisals and research
• Preparation of fee proposals to generate new business.
• Review of Local Planning Authority (LPA) Local Plans and their stage of production.
• Assisting clients throughout the planning process.
• Assisting with community engagement, committee meetings and public examinations.
• Communicating with all stakeholders involved in the planning process.

• An RTPI accredited degree or Masters in a related discipline.
• Will have spent some time working in the planning industry, even if only as part of your work placement.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Excellent communication skills
• Is open and seeks support / assistance from senior colleagues to support with tasks
• Excellent client liaison skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Project management skills
• Report writing skills
• Understanding of the UK planning process

As a valued employee of Lanpro Group, you can expect to feel looked after. We offer the following great benefits as standard:

Day One

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Death in service cover
• Centrally based City offices
• Hybrid working environment (flexible work)
• Protected CPD (Department, individual andcompanywide)
• Professional Body membership contribution
• Career progression framework and development, including two defined promotion windows annually.
• E Learning portal access
• Non contractual growth bonus scheme

After Probation and Beyond

• Loyalty Leave (Continuous Service Accrued Annual Leave up to 5 days)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle to work scheme