Recruitment: Masterplanner

HTA Design is an award winning multi-disciplinary design partnership of specialist teams working collaboratively in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Interior Design, Sustainability, Planning and Communication Design.

HTA has an exciting opportunity for a talented Masterplanner within our Placecraft team where our clients range from high profile master developers to design-led housebuilders and innovative SMEs.

This is a key role within a creative team, helping generate the design story and documenting it with comprehensive and attractive material. You will have a keen interest and experience in projects ranging from garden towns through to high value medium-rise sites and implications on dwelling types, and experience in promoting sites through the planning process and preparing Outline/Hybrid Planning Applications and Design Codes.

The successful candidate will have:

• Minimum RIBA Part 1 qualified – however you may have further RIBA qualifications, or alternative Urban Design qualifications, or strong suitable practice experience.
• Minimum 3 years postgraduate experience in low to medium rise masterplanning in a UK practice, including experience in promoting sites through the planning process and preparing Outline/Hybrid Planning Applications and Design Codes.
• Strong knowledge of masterplanning best practice and UK planning policy.
• Experience in site analysis, preparation of base plans and supporting material required for masterplanning work.

A passion for housing and creating better places.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification on our website for full details.

If you have what we are looking for and want a role with excellent career development opportunities and a supportive environment, then why not apply.

Closing date for applications: Noon, Tuesday 14^th October 2025

To apply, please click ‘Apply for this Job’

1. Answer all pre-application questions accurately.
2. Upload a brief letter of introduction.
3. Upload your CV formatted as a PDF file.

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Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

HTA is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. We value the differences, needs and contributions a diverse workforce represents and we strive to embed this ideal across all our people related activities and to create a culture of belonging.

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