Job Title: Planning Consultant
Location: Birmingham (Agile Working)
Employment Type: Full-time
The Role
An award-winning, market-leading specialist consultancy is seeking a Planning Consultant to join its expanding Professional Services Team during a period of sustained growth across its products and services.
Based in central Birmingham, the role operates under an Agile Working Policy, offering flexibility while requiring attendance at a state-of-the-art Birmingham office as business needs dictate.
You will be responsible for providing expert planning advice, guidance, and informed recommendations to a wide range of customers, including planning professionals, developers, local planning authorities, applicants, and members of the public, often via a national online planning platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing online and remote planning advice on general and scheme-specific planning matters
- Preparing for customer meetings through research of local planning policy and planning history
- Producing concise written summaries following customer meetings, subject to quality assurance
- Preparing detailed Planning Consultancy reports following pre-application consultations, including:
- Planning policy analysis
- Planning history and constraints
- Advice and recommendations
- Completing delegated and committee planning application reports in line with agreed KPIs, including:
- Household residential extensions
- Lawful Development Certificates
- Prior Notifications
- Advertisement Consents
- Changes of Use
- Communicating and negotiating effectively with applicants and agents on applications, queries, and post-refusal advice
- Updating back-office systems with application progress, site visits, and evaluations
- Maintaining customer enquiry databases in line with performance targets
- Attending monthly team meetings and weekly one-to-one case conferences
- Meeting daily, weekly, and monthly KPI and production targets
- Ensuring a ‘right first time’ approach through high-quality, efficient output
- Updating project documentation, including daily production and quality logs
- Undertaking additional duties appropriate to the scope and grade of the role
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- A relevant BA degree or equivalent RTPI-accredited planning qualification
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to produce clear, concise planning reports
- Strong organisational skills and a focus on productivity, efficiency, and quality
Desirable
- At least 6 months’ experience working with planning applications
- Experience within a Local Planning Authority or private sector consultancy
Why Apply?
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional leave
- Pension scheme, life assurance, and employee assistance programme
- Enhanced family-friendly policies
- Flexible Agile Working approach
- Strong training, development, and progression opportunities
- Supportive and inclusive working culture
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