Planner / Senior Planner – Brighton (Hybrid)

Location: Falmer, Brighton (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Job Type: Permanent | Full-Time (Part-Time/Flexible Working Considered)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Planner or Senior Planner to join a growing and ambitious private planning consultancy based in Brighton.

This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a close-knit team where you'll work directly alongside experienced Directors, take ownership of your own projects and play a key role in delivering commercially focused planning advice across a diverse portfolio of developments throughout the South East.

The Role

Depending on your experience, you will:

• Manage planning projects from inception through to determination.
• Prepare high-quality Planning Statements, Design & Access Statements, Appeal Statements and supporting reports.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, providing clear and practical planning advice.
• Coordinate planning application submissions.
• Attend planning committee meetings and stakeholder consultations.
• Advise clients on Local Development Plans and planning strategy.
• Progress projects independently following an initial onboarding period.
• At Senior level, mentor junior colleagues and represent clients at appeals and public inquiries.

About You

We're looking for candidates who have:

• A degree in Town Planning or a related discipline.
• Experience working within the UK planning system, either in consultancy or the public sector.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organisational and project management abilities.
• A proactive, commercially minded approach.
• RTPI Licentiate membership (Planner level) or Chartered status (Senior level) is desirable.

For Senior applicants, experience managing client relationships, mentoring colleagues and contributing to business development would be advantageous.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Hybrid working (typically three days in the office).
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Additional annual leave for long service.
• Christmas/New Year office closure with gifted leave.
• Employer pension contribution.
• Paid professional membership.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Ongoing mentoring and structured career development.
• Regular team social events.
• Genuine opportunities for progression within a growing consultancy where your contribution will have a real impact.

Please note: Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be able to travel to the Brighton office on a regular basis. Sponsorship is not available.

If you're looking to join a consultancy where you'll have genuine responsibility, excellent career progression and exposure to a wide variety of planning projects, we'd love to hear from you.

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