Graduate Planner - New Homes Location: Telford Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as an Assistant Planner and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters. Why Persimmon Homes? We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year. At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Senior Engineer, you’ll benefit from: What is the role? This is an exciting opportunity to join the Planning Team. This role typically reports to the Head of Planning and will have contact with consultants, local planning authorities, stakeholders and local communities. The purpose of the role is to assist planning and development appraisals, planning submissions and other related applications within the residential sector for both immediate and strategic sites. The role will include: Producing site assessments, detailed examination of planning histories, policy analysis, interpretation and consideration of material considerations, and new site appraisals for immediate and strategic sites in a timely manner to meet required deadlines to maintain the relationship with the Land team and protect the interests of the company. Prepare and project manage different types of planning applications from Outline/Full and Reserved Matters to the discharge of planning conditions accurately so that the Region can maintain new sites to develop Liaise and brief internal layout designers, external consultants and officers at local planning authorities prior, during and post submission in order to develop strong working relationships Prepare Planning Statements, Design & Access Statements and a range of other planning documents required to support applications accurately and on time so the business can continue to achieve the necessary planning approvals Organise supporting information and attend required stakeholder/public consultation events with professionalism at all times to build confidence with the general public Formulating planning strategies to promote medium and long term development sites through the plan-making process under the guidance of the Planning Manager to continue a pipeline of new sites for the region On occasion to deputise for the Head of Planning to provide support and assistance to the team Monitor development plan progress and associated evidence based and policy documents within each local planning authority area What experience, qualifications and skills are we looking for?
Graduate Planner - New Homes employer: Persimmon Homes
At Persimmon Homes, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that values your ambition and supports your career growth. As a Sales Advisor in Oundle, you'll enjoy a competitive salary with OTE potential, comprehensive employee benefits, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, all while working in a dynamic environment where your contributions truly matter.
