Town Planner
DEPARTMENT
Planning
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Follow the company’s policies, procedures, planning standards, statutory requirements, and quality management system.
- Conduct planning studies, site analyses, development potential assessments, land-use reviews, and planning due diligence.
- Review applicable development plans, local plans, structure plans, zoning requirements, planning policies, density controls, plot ratios, building heights, setbacks, parking requirements, and other planning parameters.
- Advise the client and project team on planning feasibility, development strategy, approval pathways, planning risks, and authority requirements.
- Prepare planning concepts, development proposals, planning reports, planning statements, development schedules, land-use schedules, and supporting documents.
- Prepare and coordinate applications for planning permission, development orders, land matters, subdivision, amalgamation, conversion, surrender and re-alienation, and other planning-related approvals.
- Coordinate planning submissions with the architect, engineers, landscape architects, traffic consultants, environmental consultants, surveyors, lawyers, and other relevant specialists.
- Liaise with local authorities, planning departments, land offices, technical agencies, utility providers, and other regulatory bodies.
- Attend pre-consultation meetings, technical meetings, planning hearings, objection hearings, client meetings, consultant meetings, and authority meetings.
- Monitor the progress of planning submissions and respond to authority comments, technical requirements, and conditions of approval.
- Review project designs to ensure compliance with approved planning parameters and conditions.
- Advise the project team on amendments to planning approvals arising from design, density, land-use, phasing, or development changes.
- Prepare planning appeal documents, justification reports, presentation materials, and responses to objections where required.
- Monitor changes in planning legislation, policies, guidelines, and authority procedures that may affect projects.
- Maintain complete and accurate records of submissions, approvals, conditions, authority correspondence, and planning decisions.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the Management.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Prepare and submit complete, accurate, and coordinated planning applications within the agreed programme.
- Sign or endorse planning reports, applications, and correspondence where professionally qualified and authorized.
- Provide accurate advice on planning controls, development potential, statutory procedures, and approval risks.
- Ensure that planning approval conditions are communicated to the project team and incorporated into the design and implementation process.
- Maintain proper records of authority comments, approvals, conditions, amendments, and planning commitments.
