Senior Town Planner | Lead Impactful Developments (Hybrid)

Penguin Recruitment; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

Generous annual leave

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Penguin Recruitment is seeking a Senior Town Planner to lead a varied project portfolio in the South West, with Bristol or Exeter as the base. You will provide commercially focused planning advice, guide developments through the process and mentor junior colleagues while supporting business development.

You will work closely with clients, authorities and stakeholders, leveraging your UK planning expertise to unlock planning challenges and push for successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience within a planning consultancy, developer, housebuilder or local authority.
• Strong knowledge of UK planning legislation, planning policy and development management.
• Experience securing planning permissions on a range of development projects.
• Experience managing planning applications independently.
• Experience preparing and submitting planning appeals.
• Knowledge of highways, ecology, drainage or heritage.
• Degree or postgraduate qualification in Town Planning or related discipline.
• MRTPI qualified or working towards chartership.
• Excellent communication, client management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A proactive, commercially aware and collaborative approach.

Responsibilities

• Managing planning applications from feasibility through to determination.
• Providing strategic and commercially focused planning advice to clients.
• Preparing and managing planning appeals.
• Securing planning permissions and supporting Section 106 negotiations.
• Liaising with local authorities, stakeholders and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Supporting business development and identifying new opportunities.
• Keeping up to date with planning legislation, policy and industry developments.

Skills

Town Planning

Client management

Stakeholder engagement

Project leadership

Commercial awareness

Education

Degree in Town Planning

MRTPI (qualified or near qualification)

Job description

Penguin Recruitment is seeking a Senior Town Planner to lead a varied project portfolio in the South West, with Bristol or Exeter as the base. You will provide commercially focused planning advice, guide developments through the process and mentor junior colleagues while supporting business development.

You will work closely with clients, authorities and stakeholders, leveraging your UK planning expertise to unlock planning challenges and push for successful outcomes.