At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team to shape communities and manage exciting residential projects.
- Company: Persimmon Homes, one of the UK's largest housebuilders with a commitment to quality.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, life cover, healthcare, and exclusive employee discounts.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a diverse and inclusive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in planning while building your career with a supportive company.
- Qualifications: Degree in Planning with RTPI accreditation and experience in development management.
If you would like to know a bit more about this opportunity, or are considering applying, then please read the following job information.
Location: Gosforth, NE13
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as 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 Planner you'll benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- Healthcare Bonus
- Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
This is a great opportunity to work within the land and planning department of an established housebuilder. You will work within a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, helping to positively shape future places and communities and gaining exposure to some of the most exciting residential projects in the north east.
The purpose of the role is to carry out planning and development appraisals, prepare and submit planning and other related applications within the residential sector for both immediate and strategic sites.
What you'll do as a Planner:
- 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 do I need?
- Previous experience working in the private or public sector in the field of development management / planning policy.
- Degree / Masters Planning Degree with an RTPI accreditation and a rounded knowledge of town planning.
- Ability to adapt to change and to work accurately and efficiently under pressure.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Full UK driving licence.
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