Shrewsbury
Environment
Permanent | Full Time
ASAP
18/03/2025
08/04/2025
Principal Planning Consultant
Location: Shrewsbury
Penguin Recruitment are delighted to be supporting a leading multidisciplinary who are looking to recruit a Principal Planning Consultant. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of planning projects across various sectors, including housing, leisure, energy, and agriculture. This is a key client-facing role, combining technical expertise with exceptional customer service to deliver high-quality planning advice and project leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
* Client Relationship Management: Take charge of building and maintaining long-term relationships with key clients, offering expert guidance and ensuring smooth project delivery from start to finish.
* Project Leadership: Lead major planning projects, ensuring timely delivery, managing budgets, and maintaining high standards across all phases of work.
* Strategic Planning Advice: Provide expert planning advice, addressing both immediate planning applications and long-term land promotion strategies.
* Documentation: Write and edit planning statements, appeal statements, design and access statements, and other planning reports.
* Land Promotion: Promote land for development through local planning processes, including the local plan review and representations to the local planning authority.
* Environmental Impact Assessments: Manage the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process, contributing to and editing environmental statements.
* Stakeholder Meetings: Attend client, Local Planning Authority (LPA), and other subconsultant meetings, both virtual and in person, to ensure seamless communication and project progress.
* Business Development: Work with senior colleagues to develop new business opportunities and grow client relationships.
Key Skills & Experience:
* Proven Experience: Significant experience in a planning consultancy role, with the ability to manage your own caseload independently and effectively.
* Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of the UK planning system, with additional experience in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) being highly advantageous.
* Professional Qualifications: Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) is essential.
* Excellent Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex planning issues to clients and stakeholders.
* Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently, meet deadlines, and manage client expectations with minimal oversight.
Hours:
37.5 hours per week, with flexible working options available.
Benefits:
* Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
* Paid professional memberships and CPD funding for relevant training and events
* Private healthcare scheme
* Employee assistance program, including health plan and flu jab
* 35 days holiday per year (pro-rata), including bank holidays
* Additional day off for your birthday and extra holidays for every 3 years of service
* Discretionary bonus potential
* Enhanced pension scheme through NEST
* Access to employee loans and discounts on services
* Salary sacrifice schemes for Electric Vehicles and Cycle to Work
Interested?