Senior Planner
Savills in Scotland is looking to add a senior planner to its Planning Team to assist with a growing and diverse portfolio of instructions.
Role Overview
Savills in Scotland is looking to add a senior planner to its Planning Team to assist with a growing and diverse portfolio of instructions. We are looking for someone with up to 5 years experience, MRTPI and/or RICS qualified and ideally with experience in the renewable energy sector and with EIA project management/assistant project management experience. Typically, your role will involve managing your own workload, assisting the senior team members on large instructions, EIA co-ordination and screening and scoping exercises, undertaking planning research and enquiries, drafting and finessing reports and planning submissions (site assessments, policy notes, applications, appeals, development plan representations and so on) as well as assisting with the management of the team’s caseload and its business development activities. The role is Glasgow based with an element of hybrid working an option.
Key Responsibilities
• Prepare planning appraisals of land, buildings and concepts.
• Undertake research and analysis.
• Prepare planning applications, including planning statements.
• Write reports, interpreting data and making clear and relevant recommendations.
• EIA project management/assistant project management including Screening and Scoping reports.
• Liaise and negotiate with planning officers, employees of consultee organisations, third parties.
• Liaise and cultivate good relationships with clients and fellow professionals.
• Develop creative and original solutions to satisfy all parties.
• Ensure compliance with planning regulations.
• Communicate and negotiate effectively with clients and colleagues.
• Take responsibility for projects from the earliest stages through to completion.
• Maintain an awareness of market conditions and the impact of government policies.
• Keep informed about documents relating to planning policy and practice.
• Build relationships with other divisions within Savills.
• Attend external events to create local contacts and identify business opportunities.
Key Skills
• MRTPI and/or MRICS, with up to 5 years’ post-qualification experience.
• An enjoyment of writing, with excellent language skills and ability to effectively communicate planning arguments.
• A proven ability to multi-task, across many projects, helping to steer the team’s workload, managing projects capably – and reporting to directors, associate directors and associates in this team.
• A willingness and enthusiasm for mentoring and guiding junior planning and graduate level colleagues.
Team Overview
Savills is a leading property conultancy practice with offices accross Scotland and the UK and a wide range of existing corporate, landowner and public sector clients. This position of Senior Planner is an important role in the Scottish Planning Team - one of the largest in the country - to help deliver a wide range of exciting and high profile projects. The Scottish Planning Team works on a wide range of projects across the country from offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Perth. While a large part of the role will be devoted to our diverse range of existing renewable energy projects, successful candidates can also expect to work on other projects including city centre regeneration, strategic land, retail, rural and logistics.
To arrange an informal chat about the position, please request via a message in our application system
Recruitment agencies
Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
- Business area
- Planning & Development Consultancy
- Role
- Planning
- Locations
- Glasgow
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role offers some working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
Glasgow
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
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We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
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We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
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Senior Planner
Savills in Scotland is looking to add a senior planner to its Planning Team to assist with a growing and diverse portfolio of instructions.
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