Senior Planner - DCO Team

Vacancy

Posted Friday August 28 2026

Senior Planner - DCO Team

Our infrastructure workload is growing. We're looking for a Senior Planner with hands-on experience of the Development Consent Order process to help lead our work on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.

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The Role

You'll be a key member of our Planning team. You'll co-ordinate the planning workstreams on DCO projects and work closely with our transport and environmental teams. Your work will include:

• Advising clients on consenting strategy
• Managing the pre-application stages
• Preparing and co-ordinating application documents
• Supporting clients through examination, including written representations, responses to the Examining Authority's questions, Statements of Common Ground and appearing at hearings
• Liaising with the Planning Inspectorate, local planning authorities, legal advisers and the wider project team
• Keeping up to date with National Policy Statements and ongoing reforms to the NSIP regime, and advising clients on what they mean in practice
• Mentoring junior planners and helping grow DHA's infrastructure offer, including business development

You'll also have the chance to work on our broader Town and Country Planning Act casework, so your role stays varied.

About you

• MRTPI, or close to achieving chartered status
• Demonstrable experience of at least one DCO through pre-application, examination or both, whether in consultancy, a promoter, a local authority or PINS
• Confident managing complex, multidisciplinary workstreams and tight programmes
• Excellent written skills, with the ability to produce clear, robust and persuasive documents
• Comfortable dealing with clients, stakeholders and the public, and presenting at hearings and consultation events
• Experience in sectors such as energy, transport, water or waste would be an advantage

For more information contact our team on 01622 776226 or attach your CV and covering letter below.

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