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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

We are looking for a Graduate Town Planner to be based in Reading , joining our 2026 Graduate Programme.
As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your town planning expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. You will contribute to a broad range of projects, from initial research and site appraisals to application preparation, community engagement, plan promotion, and planning appeals in the residential, commercial and environmental sectors. You will also assist with project coordination and management, ensuring projects run smoothly.
The Town Planning team principally focus on residential-led developments across the South-East, including urban extensions (e.g. North East Guildford), new settlements/garden villages (Longcross Garden Village), exciting regeneration projects (Vastern Road, Reading) as well as mixed-use, industrial/commercial (Shinfield Studios) and retirement/later living schemes. Developments range in size, use and complexity and include the preparation and submission of all types of planning applications, appeals and Local Plan promotions.
You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting inter-disciplinary environment.
Take a look at our Town Planning business line:- Town Planning (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our Town Planners:- My Stantec Story: Building a career in planning with Joseph Lynch