David Lock Associates - Assistant Planner
David Lock Associates is looking for an Assistant Planner.
THe firm states:
As a graduate planner, you’ll be part of project teams working on a wide variety of schemes with different clients, in different sectors, across the country, giving you the chance to learn broadly and build confidence quickly.
You’ll contribute to projects from day one, supported by mentors and senior colleagues who will help you progress towards professional accreditation and beyond.
The way we work is different, you’ll be collaborating with other planners, designers, and technical specialists in the studio, and have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact early in your career.
Applicants should hold, or be working towards, an RTPI accredited
degree, such as the MPLAN, or Masters.
David Lock Associates describes how the firm works:
'We have been an employee-owned business since 2015. Independence is a cornerstone of our integrity and continued success. Without external investors or shareholders, we have the freedom to invest in our employees, our community, our charitable interests, and the causes that we and our clients most value.
'Since David Lock Associates was founded in 1988, we have been based in Milton Keynes. We draw inspiration from being within one the most successful and dynamic planned settlements in the world. We work in a functional, well-connected, economically active, green, and unashamedly modern environment and the lived experience and lessons this has provided our practice are many and varied. As the city has grown and prospered so have we.
'We value the professional and social benefits of being office based and working collaboratively face to face. We have embraced some flexible working practices, including a satellite design studio in London, but still work together in Milton Keynes every week. This means we maintain strong project teams, embed individuals with unique and specialist skills, and communicate best practice, strengthening our ability to provide our clients with the best advice and outcomes. The leaders of our business lead our projects from inception to completion, whether the commitment is for weeks or for decades. Committed service and dedication shape our identity and repeatedly set us apart from our competitors.
'As planners and master planners, we are confident in our ability to lay solid foundations for sustainable growth. Our master plans shape connected places where the natural and man-made can comfortably co-exist, where carbon neutral futures can be attained, and where healthy lifestyles can be pursued. Our strategies and consents are carefully crafted, fixing matters which deliver what is essential, and allowing flexibility for when the changing world demands a better or unforeseen solution. The art of successful planning and design is to shape places that are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable and resilient.
'We are Planet Mark certified, and reducing our operational carbon footprint year on year, but this is only one part of our commitment to sustainability. Our approach looks at more than isolated technical solutions; in our work we seek to grasp this opportunity to understand how policy requirements and placemaking ambition can be combined to make a great and sustainable built environment.'
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