Senior Planner

Hallam Land Management is one of the UK's leading strategic land and planning promotion companies. We are a subsidiary of Henry Boot PLC and promote land through the planning system for predominantly residential and commercial schemes. We are proud of our extensive and successful track record in delivering complex and challenging sites.

Due to continued business growth and success, we are expanding our team and have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Planner at our Bristol office.

Your Role

This role is responsible for supporting the regional team with the appraising and promoting of land in order to deliver the strategic objectives of the region.

Key Accountabilities:

• Promote and manage projects on their course to Planning Permission. This will involve longer-term strategic promotion, and management of current and emerging planning applications;
• Demonstrate a degree of personal ownership for specific sites / actions as agreed with the Senior Regional Team and / or more senior team members;
• Support the team in researching and appraising specific site searching opportunities;
• Appraise sites and make recommendations to the Senior Regional Team;
• Prepare Planning submissions for agents and landowners by seeking input from the Senior Regional Team
• Prepare reports for consideration by the Senior Regional Team;
• Work with external teams to compile the necessary Marketing and Sale material to allow opportunities to be sold once the optimum planning position has been achieved;
• Assist as appropriate and required with the disposal of land;
• Support the Executive Director in preparing for Director and Board meetings and prepare for, attend and provide support at planning, committee and public consultation meetings;
• Identify any risks and flag in a timely manner to the appropriate person;
• Foster and grow close working relationships with consultants, external specialists, local authorities, agents and land owners;
• Manage site budgets in line with expectations and authority levels;
• Adhere to internal policies, procedures and processes and actively seek to make recommendations for improvement.

About You

The successful candidate will work within an environment of high motivation and productivity, maintaining effective working relationships and actively seeking recommendations for improvement. Ideally, you will have demonstrable experience in guiding, managing and/or deciding planning applications, and have experience of the Local Plan process, through promotion or contributions to drafting Local Plans. This is an exciting and varied opportunity and so you will need to be organised, flexible and respond well to new and changing situations. You will hold a relevant degree and ideally have over 5 years experience in Planning and/or Development. The role requires travel throughout the southwest region. Being an RTPI member would be advantageous.

Our Offer

We have a competitive and progressive benefits package to help shape and support you inside and outside of work.

• We pay you a competitive salary - we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and gender pay parity;
• We share our future financial success with our bonus share scheme;
• We invest in your future with our pension plan provided by AVIVA;
• We protect your loved ones by giving a life assurance benefit based on multiples of salary;
• We support you when you might have health concerns for you or your family with our AVIVA Digital GP app;
• We will help you manage the balance of work and home with agile working and flexibility;
• We give you 26 days of annual leave, with the ability to buy additional leave;
• We support a complete business closure between Christmas and New Year, which does not require you to use your annual leave entitlement;
• We give you enhanced pay if you take leave due to becoming a parent; however, you become a parent;
• We support your career aspirations; we are committed to personal growth and internal talent development;
• We offer you access to our Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which includes access to e-bikes;
• We support you when you need external support with our Employee Assistance Programme.

About Us

We have been acquiring, promoting, developing and trading in strategic land since 1990 and we operate throughout England, Scotland and Wales. We have experienced land and planning teams throughout the County. We work with landowners, developers, local authorities, communities and other parties to bring forward development opportunities.

We're part of the Henry Boot Group of Companie. We've defined what makes working with us so special in our unique initiative, the 'Henry Boot Way'. This influences our culture and how we do things and strengthens the relationship between employer and employee.

Equality and Diversity

Since 1886 our business has always put our people first, so we're committed to offering an equal opportunity to every individual who joins us.

The Henry Boot Group of Companies is an equal opportunities employer.

Due to UK GDPR, we cannot accept applications from agencies not instructed to act on our behalf.

The Henry Boot Group of Companies reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.