Job Title: Senior Town Planner

Location: Norwich, NR7

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Senior Town Planner and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes?

We're one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Senior Town Planner, you'll benefit from:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Healthcare
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role?

Experience, qualification, and soft skills, have you got everything required to succeed in this opportunity Find out below.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to join the Technical Team. This role typically reports to the Planning Director. The key responsibilities of the role will be to convert our existing land interests into planning consents as well as replacing and adding to our land reserves. It involves working with a diverse range of people, including landowners, public and private sector professionals, politicians, developers and local residents.

The successful candidate will be responsible for a programme of planning promotion and planning submissions whilst being expected to take a leading role in the formulation and submission of planning applications large and small including the discharge of planning conditions to support the growth of the business.

What you'll do as a Senior Town Planner

• Produce site assessments, detailed examination of planning histories, policy analysis, interpretation and consideration of material considerations, and new site appraisals for immediate and strategic sites in good time to maintain the relationship with the Land team and protect the interests of the company
• Prepare and project manage different types of planning applications from Outline/Full and Reserved Matters to the discharge of planning conditions accurately so that the Region can maintain new sites to develop
• Liaise and brief internal layout designers, external consultants and officers at Local Planning Authorities prior, during and post submission in order to develop strong working relationships
• Prepare Design & Access Statements and a range of other planning documents required to support applications accurately and on time so the business can continue to gain positive planning consents
• Organise supporting information and attend required stakeholder/public consultation events with professionalism at all times to build confidence with the general public
• Formulating planning strategies to promote medium and long term development sites through the plan-making process under the guidance of the Planning Manager to continue a pipeline of new sites for the region
• Ensure that on occasion when deputising for the Director the team are allocated tasks, where quality of work will need to be verified to xbpsjku maintain it is completed to a good standard within company guidelines
• Given proven experience the role will involve mentoring and training junior members of the team and developing their skills to a sufficient level where they can take on more responsibility and add value to the team, thus improving productivity within the region
• On occasion provide assistance to the Director when making key business decisions and attend regular regional meetings as the relevant subject expert

What experience do I need?

• Experience of leading on the management of planning applications whether that be in a private or public sector role
• Degree / Masters Planning Degree with an RTPI accreditation and a rounded knowledge of planning
• Ability to adapt to change and to work accurately and efficiently under pressure
• Enthusiastic, hardworking individual who is willing to show their initiative working as part of a small team in a busy commercial office
• Professional communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills are essential
• Full UK driving licence