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Planning Manager
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Planning Manager
Planning Manager
Location: Leeds Salary: £55,000 to £65,000
I'm working with a privately owned developer that builds out its own schemes across the UK. Land, design, and construction all sit in-house, so the planning work here actually gets delivered rather than handed off. It's a funded, national pipeline in a resilient market with genuine social purpose behind it.
About the Role
- Take sites from pre-application through to consent
- Manage applications, conditions, and Section 106 negotiations
- Lead public consultation and community engagement on new schemes
- Present at planning committee and represent the business at appeals where needed
- Coordinate design, technical, and external consultant teams
- Provide planning advice on new site acquisitions
- Own the planning strategy and risk across your own pipeline
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About You
- Solid experience managing planning applications through to consent, either client-side or in consultancy
- Strong working knowledge of the English planning system and the NPPF
- Confident dealing with LPAs, consultees, and communities, and speaking in public forums
- Proactive, the sort who solves planning problems rather than just flagging them
- Commercially minded, with good judgement on strategy and risk
- RTPI membership is a plus but not essential if the relevant experience is there
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Benefits
- Salary: £55,000 to £65,000 (DOE)
- Car allowance
- Bonus scheme
- Contributory pension
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
This is a great option if you're at a consultancy and find timesheets tedious, or client-side and after a bigger pipeline with real autonomy.
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