Associate Planner

Join Savills market-leading Central Planning Team as an Associate Planner and play a key role in delivering planning consultancy advice across a diverse portfolio of high-profile projects throughout the Thames Valley and South East. This role offers the opportunity to work on residential, commercial, infrastructure, renewable energy and mixed-use developments, supporting clients through every stage of the planning process.

You will manage projects from initial appraisal through to determination and post-consent stages, preparing planning strategies, applications, appraisals and development assessments while building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders. Working as part of a collaborative team of planning professionals, you will help shape development opportunities, provide commercially focused recommendations and contribute to successful project outcomes.

The position is ideally suited to a motivated and commercially aware planner looking to broaden their expertise, take ownership of projects and further develop their career within one of the UK's largest and most respected planning consultancies.

To find out more details on the notable projects our team have worked on, please see our 2025 Yearbook by clicking here.

This team sits within the Planning Division and sits over two main offices based in Reading and Oxford, delivering some of the largest projects typically within and around the Thames Valley.

We are a dynamic and vibrant team of over 27 planners providing planning consultancy advice to a wide range of clients in relation to large scale residential and commercial developments, renewable energy and battery storage, water infrastructure, educational developments through to rural projects.

Savills has one of the largest planning consultancies in the UK with a team of 350+ operating across 23 offices across all the principal regional markets. We remain the largest planning consultancy set within a multi-disciplinary property company.