Assistant Spatial Planner

Job description

About the job. National Highways have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Spatial Planner to join our multi-disciplinary team in the East region. The Assistant Spatial Planner will take a proactive role in the town and country planning system by helping to ensure that new developments are well located and planned for, and the travel demands they create are sustainable. You will assist and work alongside our team of Spatial Planners, working with local authority partners and developers to ensure the transport impacts of individual developments and Local Plans are fully considered and mitigation measures necessary on our road network are identified. You will be responsible to manage your own caseloads, as well as co-ordinating with other parts of the organisation in submitting our responses. This role will be based from our offices in Bedford, Cambridge and Ipswich - Working with Spatial Planners and Spatial Planning Manager as they engage with internal and external partners to identify and secure funding opportunities for improvements to our road network which support development, for example through developer contributions and the Housing Infrastructure Fund. - Discharging our...