Dobson-Grey
CHARTERED TOWN PLANNER APPRENTICESHIP
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Location: Stratford upon Avon
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Start Date: 15th September 2025
Transform your future with our Chartered Town Planner Level 7 Degree Apprenticeship, combining university study and on-the-job training to advance your career in professional planning and achieve an MSc Urban and Regional Planning qualification.
Responsibilities
- Your key agenda will be to aid delivery of fees from the processing of planning applications and planning related work for immediate and strategic land on behalf of Dobson-Grey and their clients.
- Your particular focus will be on increasing the supply and delivery of planning instructions across sectors but principally Residential and Healthcare Land, providing strategic and immediate planning advice, support to developers and investors.
- Compiling and delivering planning strategies to clients.
- Negotiations and working closely with Local Authorities and key stakeholders.
- Provide Planning update reports highlighting latest planning legislation and statutory change information for development team and clients.
- Experience in preparing/supporting development viability assessments.
- In depth planning knowledge for promotion of strategic land opportunities.
- Active diary management system for key deadlines for Local Government consultations to ensure clients are actively promoting land and made aware.
- Providing advice and submitting pre application forms to Local Government UK wide.
- Experience in Permitted Development Rights application and Agricultural Tie Removal.
- Preparation of planning applications and supporting documents for development and infrastructure schemes.
- Input into the preparation of Development Consent Orders and associated documentation.
- Coordination of Planning Statements, Design and Access Statements and/or input into Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs).
- Experience of handling and negotiating Section 106 and CIL and good demonstrable planning law experience.
- Undertaking evidence based studies (such as residential and care need employment land reviews, green belt studies, infrastructure assessments).
- Preparation of strategy and policy documents and preparation of area based plans (such as master plans, supplementary planning documents)
- Support development management team with such other development management and research tasks which ensure the effective delivery of projects.
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