Senior Planner

Job Title: Senior Planner

Location: Camberley, GU15

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Senior 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 Planner, you’ll benefit from:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• Car Allowance or Company Car
• 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?
As a Senior Planner with Persimmon Homes Thames Valley you will be part of a small yet busy planning team, handling a varied range of planning applications for both strategic and immediate sites, of varying scales and complexity. The role offers a broad area of responsibility for all areas of the planning process including detailed development management and delivery. We are primarily looking for someone with proven experience of managing planning applications, coordinating consultant teams and negotiating with planning officers to secure deliverable planning consents. A good understanding of development management policy requirements is essential.

What you’ll do as a Senior Planner

• Production of 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 and s106 obligations 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

What experience do I need?

• Demonstrable experience of leading on the management of planning applications whether that be in a private or public sector role
• Evidence of experience working in the private or development sectors
• 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

Please state your salary expectations on your application, along with evidence of your experience and how this meets the job description. In particular we are keen to understand your experience of managing complex planning applications through the planning system.