CHURCHILL RETIREMENT LIVING LIMITED
Associate Planner
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Role: Associate Planner
Location: Ringwood, Hampshire BH24 3SG
Rewards and Benefits:
- Competitive basic salary
- Company car or car allowance
- Private medical
- Life assurance
- Many other benefits
About the role
We're recruiting an experienced Associate Planner to join our proactive, dynamic and success-driven internal planning consultancy, based at our Head Office in Ringwood, Hampshire. This is an excellent opportunity for an MRTPI-qualified planning professional to play a key role in delivering high-quality residential development schemes and supporting our national growth strategy.
You'll join a strong, collaborative Planning team, working closely with our Divisional offices, land teams, design colleagues and external stakeholders. As a pivotal part of our development and planning process, your key responsibilities will include:
- Assessing new land opportunities and development sites for planning potential, identifying planning constraints, reviewing local plan policy and preparing clear planning appraisal reports for land teams.
- Liaising with Design and technical teams to shape viable, policy-compliant and commercially deliverable planning strategies for each scheme.
- Attending pre-application, project and planning meetings with local planning authorities, consultants and internal stakeholders.
- Preparing, coordinating and submitting planning applications, including planning research, supporting documentation and consultant inputs.
- Monitoring live planning applications through to determination, proactively responding to planning officer comments, consultee feedback, questions and queries.
- Coordinating, preparing and submitting applications for the discharge of planning conditions, ensuring timely progress from consent to delivery.
- Supporting the business with planning appeals where required, including appeal strategy, preparation and attendance at hearings.
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As an Associate Planner, you'll have real influence over the success of our planning applications, land promotion and residential development schemes. Ultimately, you'll see your expertise rewarded through successful planning consents and customers who love their independent, safe and secure retirement home - knowing you played an important part in making it happen.
Hours of work: 9.00am to 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 9.00am to 5.00pm on Fridays with one hour for lunch. This role is based on site at our head office in Ringwood, Hampshire.
About you
You'll bring a thorough understanding of UK planning policy, development management procedures and planning law, with post-qualification experience gained in public practice, private consultancy or a developer environment.
Knowledge of affordable housing policy and retirement living, residential or later living development would be highly advantageous.
You must be a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) and ideally hold a degree or Diploma in Town Planning or a related discipline.
Our new Associate Planner will have proven negotiation, communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage effectively with local planning authorities, consultants, landowners, statutory consultees and internal teams to resolve issues and secure positive planning outcomes.
You'll enjoy managing your own caseload of planning applications and development projects, while also working as part of a close-knit and supportive team that shares advice, guidance and expertise to achieve the best possible results.
How you'll be rewarded
- Competitive salary
- Company Car or Car Allowance
- Annual holiday entitlement - 24 days
- Day off on your birthday
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- Private Medical
- Health Screening
- Life Assurance
- Colleague Introduction reward scheme
- Eye Care Reimbursement
- £200 John Lewis vouchers for expectant parents
- Land Introduction Bonus
- Colleague wellbeing programmes
- Charity fund matching through Churchill Foundation
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About us
We are Churchill Living, the leading provider of housing that offers freedom, independence, and unrivalled living value for the over 60s, and we're looking for people like you!
As a family-run, privately-owned business we have a strong culture built on trust and integrity. We're proud of what we do, and the people we work with, and we believe in giving something back to the communities where we operate. Our success is built on our fantastic team of more than 700 Colleagues across the country, which is growing all the time.
We pride ourselves on building beautiful, quality apartments in desirable locations across the country for those looking for greater freedom and independence. Our developments are designed to provide safety, support and a sense of community for our Customers to enjoy, ensuring peace of mind for them and their families.
We are proud to have been voted a Sunday Times Top 10 'Best Places to Work' based on our Colleague feedback. Not only that, but we've won a host of industry awards including the prestigious Housebuilder of the Year at the WhatHouse? Awards.
Join us and be part of an ambitious, successful business that values its people and the contribution they make every day.
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