Senior Planning Consultant
| Posting date: | 17 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £50,000 to £70,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | plus excellent benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 March 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Career Cross Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Senior Planning Consultant – Birmingham - £50k – £70k + excellent benefits
Our client is a well-established Architectural Company based in Birmingham. Due to continued growth and expansion, they are now looking to recruit a Senior Planning Consultant.
Are a Senior Planning Consultant you will have a proven track record of securing planning approvals, be commercially minded, passionate, and skilled at building relationships across multiple stakeholders, delivering planning approvals and managing planning risks.
As Senior Planning Consultant, you will support the Land, Technical, and Commercial teams. You will help develop, agree, implement, and deliver the region’s land acquisition and development objectives by successfully advising on and securing planning approvals that align with the region’s business plan and growth strategy. You will also collaborate with other companies that handle consultancy, construction, and land acquisition to ensure fully integrated delivery of our developments.
Key Responsibilities:
• Providing operational and tactical planning advice to the Land and Technical teams, including land appraisal reports, risk assessments, and recommendations on planning gain requirements.
• Working closely with regional teams and third-party consultants to ensure planning applications are prepared in line with Local Authority requirements.
• Managing the regional planning application process through direct liaison with Local Planning Authorities.
• Proactively identifying and negotiating planning gain contributions under the guidance of the Land and Commercial Directors.
• Managing the drafting and completion of all section agreements with Local Authorities and legal teams.
• Coordinating the discharge of planning conditions to ensure compliance and timely site progression.
• Providing key updates, reports, assessments, and recommendations on planning matters to protect land acquisition, site start targets, and KPIs.
• Monitoring and reporting on local and national planning policy changes and implications.
• Contributing to the determination, agreement, and delivery of site start programmes, ensuring planning matters do not jeopardize agreed timescales.
• Preparing clear, actionable, and commercially focused planning reports and documentation for each development or phase of development.
The ideal candidate will have:
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience working within a Town Planning discipline.
• Experience gained in the private sector (housebuilder or consultancy) or local authority, demonstrating exposure to diverse planning projects.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to deliver planning approvals that are commercially viable.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to identify risks quickly and implement effective solutions.
• Experience in planning management and project delivery.
Keywords – Planning, planning consultant, senior planner, senior planning consultant, town planning, planning, planning projects, Local Planning Authorities, planning approvals, local planning, land acquisition, Birmingham
Our client is a well-established Architectural Company based in Birmingham. Due to continued growth and expansion, they are now looking to recruit a Senior Planning Consultant.
Are a Senior Planning Consultant you will have a proven track record of securing planning approvals, be commercially minded, passionate, and skilled at building relationships across multiple stakeholders, delivering planning approvals and managing planning risks.
As Senior Planning Consultant, you will support the Land, Technical, and Commercial teams. You will help develop, agree, implement, and deliver the region’s land acquisition and development objectives by successfully advising on and securing planning approvals that align with the region’s business plan and growth strategy. You will also collaborate with other companies that handle consultancy, construction, and land acquisition to ensure fully integrated delivery of our developments.
Key Responsibilities:
• Providing operational and tactical planning advice to the Land and Technical teams, including land appraisal reports, risk assessments, and recommendations on planning gain requirements.
• Working closely with regional teams and third-party consultants to ensure planning applications are prepared in line with Local Authority requirements.
• Managing the regional planning application process through direct liaison with Local Planning Authorities.
• Proactively identifying and negotiating planning gain contributions under the guidance of the Land and Commercial Directors.
• Managing the drafting and completion of all section agreements with Local Authorities and legal teams.
• Coordinating the discharge of planning conditions to ensure compliance and timely site progression.
• Providing key updates, reports, assessments, and recommendations on planning matters to protect land acquisition, site start targets, and KPIs.
• Monitoring and reporting on local and national planning policy changes and implications.
• Contributing to the determination, agreement, and delivery of site start programmes, ensuring planning matters do not jeopardize agreed timescales.
• Preparing clear, actionable, and commercially focused planning reports and documentation for each development or phase of development.
The ideal candidate will have:
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience working within a Town Planning discipline.
• Experience gained in the private sector (housebuilder or consultancy) or local authority, demonstrating exposure to diverse planning projects.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to deliver planning approvals that are commercially viable.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to identify risks quickly and implement effective solutions.
• Experience in planning management and project delivery.
Keywords – Planning, planning consultant, senior planner, senior planning consultant, town planning, planning, planning projects, Local Planning Authorities, planning approvals, local planning, land acquisition, Birmingham