Planning Manager

Planning Manager

Company:
Nurenberg, Paris, Heller & McCarthy – Hinckley, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Join our large, family‑run company and play a crucial role in developing and implementing programmes of action to secure necessary consents, maintain schedules and liaise with internal and external parties. Bring your planning expertise to a prosperous career with ongoing support, training and great career development.

• Supporting the Design & Technical Team to deliver regional planning and profit targets.
• Following the grant of outline planning consent to draw up and agree (in conjunction with the town planning, technical and design teams) a programme of action to clear/discharge all necessary consents, conditions and matters preventing the implementation of a consent (
  * there will be instances where a detailed consent or hybrid consent is obtained but the general principle remains the same).
• Monitoring the individual programme and coordinating and managing the necessary actions in conjunction with the design and technical teams and (where necessary) the town planning team.
• Liaising with the local authorities and agreeing mechanisms and action plans with local authority staff to discharge all individual conditions and consents that are necessary to implement a site consent.
• Supporting the land team in promotional activities in conjunction with the regional Planning Director.
• Assisting the D&T Director in the submission and negotiation of Planning Applications.
• Discharging all necessary pre‑start Section 106 obligations or requirements.
• Chasing progress and coordinating activity and liaisons across the company functions to ensure that programmes are adhered to.
• Chasing progress by local authorities and external agencies to maintain programmes and discharge individual tasks.
• Preparing a monthly progress report of all relevant schemes and highlighting progress or slippage against original estimates.
• Liaising with regional colleagues to identify opportunities for cost savings that may flow from meeting conditions and reserved matters in the most cost‑effective or economical manner.
• Preparing ad‑hoc advice to the company relating to any changes in planning policy (national/local) that may impact on the cost or future delivery of new opportunities.
• Attending meetings that may be necessary in the performance of your duties.
• Complying with and upholding company policies and procedures.
• Undertaking any additional tasks as may reasonably be required from time to time.

• Full UK Driving Licence
• Post‑qualification experience in a planning role (developer, consultant or LPA)
• Project management experience of major residential / residential‑led mixed‑use development schemes
• Ability to persuade and negotiate (written and verbal)
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills

• Company Car
• Company Phone and workstation
• Bupa Health Care Cover
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
• 33 days holiday entitlement (including bank holidays)
• Group Staff Discount at Triumph Motorcycles Ltd.
• Competitive discount on our homes (dependent upon the property and location)

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