Planning Content Editor

Are you excited about expanding your town and country planning expertise, from micro wind turbines to expansive garden villages and beyond? Join us at Development Control Practice (DCP) and COMPASS Online as a Planning Content Editor, where you'll craft editorial content to support planning professionals in their understanding of planning law and practice. This role offers a chance to delve into diverse projects, from local initiatives to major developments, while honing your skills through specialised training.

This role involves updating our definitive guide to the planning process (DCP), and writing summaries for COMPASS, which is the planning professions’ choice for locating key appeals. You’ll also assist in the creation of special reports on topics including Biodiversity Net Gain and Obesogenic Environments. This role would suit someone with at least one year of development management experience in either public or private planning, but graduates in planning, geography, social sciences or related subjects are encouraged to apply.

This is an excellent opportunity to pursue RTPI membership, launch a planning career, or leverage your existing expertise on products used by thousands. We would also like to hear from those who have worked in a planning environment and have experience in writing reports, application/appeal statements or documents for public consumption.

Location: ideally this role would be based with our team in Gloucester, but we’re also open to considering applications from candidates who can commute to our Twickenham office.

Responsibilities:

• Summarise and categorise appeals for the COMPASS database so that clients can find appeals that are relevant to them. This involves coding appeals with details such as the type of development, issues raised, appeal procedure type etc.
• Conduct in-depth research on news articles, significant court cases, and appeal precedents and promptly integrate them into DCP to keep clients abreast of the latest developments.
• Edit sections of the DCP guide, researching what the latest policy and legislation is on a given topic and revising the guide accordingly.
• Help develop our existing products and create new ones for the planning sector. This includes working as a researcher for our In-Depth Reports, which have recently included such topics as obesogenic environments, green belt release and biodiversity net gain.
• Collaborate on quality assurance activities for Compass and DCP, including tasks such as identifying, updating, and aligning codes with current regulations. This role entails revisiting historical appeals, ensuring consistent tagging across new and existing cases, and restructuring DCP sections as needed.

Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria:

• We are ideally seeking candidates with a planning qualification and a minimum of one year of experience in development management but graduates in geography, social sciences or related subjects are encouraged to apply.
• An excellent understanding of current planning issues.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently meet deadlines and adhere to internal style standards is essential for this position.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Good analytical and project management skills.
• Be a self-starter, keen to take on responsibility for the output of our products.
• Be a team player who works well with other colleagues.
• Have an interest in working in the media industry.
• Act as an ambassador for the brands.

We are a Disability Confident employer and offer guaranteed interviews to all disabled applicants who meet the above minimum criteria. To be considered as part of this initiative, please ensure you indicate if you have a disability when applying for the post. If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@haymarket.com.

More about our products:

• Development Control Practice (DCP): The ultimate guide to the planning process and should be referenced by anyone who works with applications, appeals, court cases and development plans. DCP guides you through all the factors involved in seeking and making decision on planning applications.
• COMPASS: COMPASS is a fully searchable and indexed database of planning appeals, allowing you to search more than 220,000 decisions, providing a quick and convenient facility to search and locate highly relevant decisions saving research time and ensuring a greater chance of success with applications and appeals.

Why work with us?

Haymarket Media Group values its people and strives to shape a better future with remarkable content. From paid content and subscription services; to integrated advertising and content marketing packages. We deliver market-leading branded experiences that inspire great decisions.

Our benefits include:

• 25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days).
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 3 weeks of the year with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ days.
• Flexible working hours (core hours from 10-3) allowing you the flexibility to adapt your work schedule to your personal commitments.
• Generous contributory pension scheme.
• Health Cash Plans: With our health cash plans, you can access a range of healthcare benefits, including coverage for medical expenses, dental care, optical services, and more.

More about working for Haymarket:

Putting social and environmental responsibility at the forefront of our business we have aligned our current sustainability goals with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As we serve our audiences, clients and communities, we are committed to driving the meaningful change necessary to build a better world. The principles of diversity, inclusion, respect, responsibility and sustainability are at the heart of our business.

We want to support our people to balance their personal and professional lives and we believe our range of benefits encourages this. Nothing beats face-time with our colleagues to promote creativity and collaboration, we’ve therefore adopted a blended working model where full time employees can expect to spend 3 days of their week in the office and the other 2 working at a location of their choice.

Haymarket is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability. Come and join us and see for yourself how Haymarket is a rewarding and exciting place to work.