About the job

Description

Senior and Associate Level Town Planners

Milton Keynes/Kings Cross, London (Hybrid)

Full-Time

£50,000 - £60,000

About the Studio

This respected, employee-owned planning consultancy is currently involved in shaping plans for over 150,000 new homes. Its diverse client base includes leading master developers, blue-chip companies, landowners, Government bodies, and local authorities. Projects cover a broad geographical spread and a wide variety of planning challenges.

The company’s approach combines robust advocacy, collaboration, and consensus-building, offering the team opportunities to work across multiple projects with different clients and teams, avoiding pigeonholes. Creativity and strategic, spatial planning lie at the core of its work, with well-executed processes seen as a means to delivering better places and creating real value.

Role Overview

You’ll work alongside our exceptional masterplanning, urban design, mapping and graphic communications teams, and will have the chance to apply your own perspective, creative thinking, problem-solving and breadth of skills to deliver great outcomes for our wide range of projects and clients, working as part of a collaborative team, but with autonomy to undertake own tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading and contributing to strategic and spatial planning projects
• Preparing and managing planning applications, negotiations, and representations
• Working closely with clients, stakeholders, and local authorities to secure consents
• Supporting masterplanning and place-making initiatives
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and acting as trusted advisors
• Mentoring junior team members and contributing to knowledge sharing

Requirements

We're looking for planners with experience in either the private or public sector, who have demonstrable and transferable skills particularly within the following areas:

• Preparation and negotiation of development proposals (particularly residential-led and/or commercial/mixed use planning applications)
• Negotiating planning permissions, conditions and s106 agreements
• Policy and plan-making activity
• Shaping promotion strategies for development projects
• Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams and to help co-ordinate design and engineering outputs to put development on the ground

What’s on Offer

• Competitive salary of around £50,000 - £60,000
• Requirement to work from the Milton Keynes office every Monday
• Can work in either Milton Keynes or Kings Cross office the rest of the time
• Working from during the week available
• Employee-owned business with a supportive, inclusive culture
• Generous annual leave plus long service leave
• Excellent pension scheme, medical insurance, group life insurance, and cycle to work scheme
• Funded professional subscriptions, training, and a strong commitment to CPD and career development
• Company-wide study trips (often abroad), annual away days, and a range of social, cultural, and sporting activities
• Regular CPD sessions, mentoring, and tailored progression plans
• A workplace that invests in its local community and charitable causes

All applications, including CVs and portfolios, will be treated with strict confidentiality.