Senior Planner

Role overview

• ID: 2025-7504
• Entity: Vistry
• Region: Vistry East Anglia
• Department: Land & Planning
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
• Date Posted: 11.07.2025

We have a new opportunity for a Planner to join our team within the Vistry East Anglia division, at our Peterborough office. As our Planner, you will assist with the design and planning of residential developments for Vistry East Anglia and co-ordinate the planning process to meet departmental objectives, in accordance with the Company’s best practice and procedures.

Working as the Planner you will co-ordinate and assist with the preparation of layouts and planning matters for all sites, helping to organise and project manage external consultant teams, ensuring targets and deadlines are met for planning applications.

We value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we’re also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated. 

Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...

• Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
• Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
• Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
• 2 Volunteering days per annum
• Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
• Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
• Share save and share incentive schemes
• Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...

• In return, what we would like from you...
  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • Architecture or Planning-related Degree or relevant experience in the industry
  • Previous experience working within a residential house builder, Consultant or Local Authority
  • Experience of project management
  • Able to influence and persuade others to their point of view
  • Commercial awareness
  • Capable of implementing change and of using their initiative
  • Resilient, positive, confident and assertive but diplomatic
  • Strong mathematical ability
  • A good communicator/listener
  • An awareness of the social and environmental impact of your work
  • Accurate with an eye for detail
• More about the Planner role...
  • Prepare design and planning briefs, tender packages and commission works being undertaken by external consultants in the preparation of planning applications , having regard to planning budgets
  • Prepare, submit and monitor a range of different planning application types from pre-application to determination to obtain positive consents, including the preparation of supporting planning documentation where necessary
  • Participate in discussions with all relevant bodies and Local Planning Authorities, in conjunction with external project teams, and engage with the public and relevant stakeholders
  • Assist the Land Department in the preparation of planning appraisals for new land opportunities
  • Contribute to the overall effectiveness of the Land Department in conjunction with the other land personnel
  • Assist with an effective handover to the regional business following the grant of planning permission to ensure a smooth and efficient site start is achieved for each development
  • The successful candidate must have Town Planning experience

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...

We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empowerus to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation,â¯and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach. 

Join us in making Vistry.  

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Benefits

Annual Leave

Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.

Pension with Legal & General

Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.

Volunteer Days

With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.

Why Vistry

Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.