Planning Assistant 

Job Title: Planning Assistant 
‍Report Line: Head of Planning UK 
‍Department: Planning
‍Location: London

Wildstone are Europe’s leading owner of outdoor media infrastructure. The company’s impressive portfolio of over 5,300 out of home advertising assets includes digital 48-sheet screens, classic paper and paste billboards, as well as super-premium digital sites. Wildstone buy, rent and obtain planning permission for property sites for outdoor advertising across the UK and Europe.

We are looking for a summer planning assistant for a 4-6 week period to play a supportive role to an in-house planning team to undertake planning research to support a development roll out and the wider business. The role would suit a candidate who has either completed at least one year of a planning related degree or has recently graduated.

• Undertake primary planning research
• Categorise historic planning consents to enable easy search functions
• Work with the planning team to improve the information inputted into Wildsites database to allow for more effective and efficient searches to be carried out
• File planning application documents and correspondence
• Monitor key applications and appeals as required
• Record / categorise useful/notable applications and appeal decisions on our database

• Attention to detail
• Multi-tasking skills
• Comfortable and efficient at using Microsoft Office
• Record-keeping skills
• Planning/Geography related knowledge
• Little/some experience of planning is beneficial although not vital

Closing date for submissions: 7th August 2023
Interview dates: 8th – 9th August 2023
Start date: 14th August 2023 

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