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About the Role

The Year in Industry scheme provides the opportunity to gain real-world experience in planning and the built environment, building on your university studies and helping you take the next step towards a professional career. At Transport for London (TfL), we are offering two distinct Year in Industry pathways, each providing unique experiences. Spatial Planning is at the heart of major planning and investment decisions, and Places for London is TfL’s dedicated commercial property company to manage its commercial estate and property development, playing a key role in shaping London.

Responsibilities

Assess planning applications against relevant local and regional planning policies, including the principles of Healthy Streets, Vision Zero and Good Growth.
Identify and help resolve transport issues, while seeking opportunities to deliver new and improved transport infrastructure through development.
Work closely with teams across TfL, the GLA, local authorities, developers and other key stakeholders.
Contribute to the development and implementation of strategic planning policy, including the London Plan.
Analyse income from the Mayoral Community Infrastructure Levy, comment on planning applications and respond to Local Plan consultations.
Develop area-based plans for key growth locations, Opportunity Areas and major transport interchanges.
Support studies and project teams by setting objectives, guiding analysis and developing evidence-based recommendations.
Support the design and delivery of highway and public realm works through the Section 278 programme.
Work collaboratively with teams across Spatial Planning, engineers and network performance colleagues throughout project design and implementation.
Help deliver road safety benefits and other highway improvements in line with the Mayor’s Healthy Streets and Vision Zero priorities.
Helping realise Mayoral objectives to deliver new homes, affordable housing, high quality place making and income generation through the development of TfL property across the commercial estate.
Undertake planning research, appraise potential development sites and opportunities, review planning policy, provide planning advice to colleagues and generally support the progression of development schemes.
Help to implement our Sustainable Development Framework (SDF) and the Mayor’s ‘good growth’ agenda on projects.

Requirements

You will be at university working towards a minimum of a 2:2 degree in urban planning, geography or another relevant built-environment/real estate discipline.
Alternatively, for the Places for London Role, you can be completing your Bachelors degree and seeking to gain experience before you start a Masters / Diploma year.
You will need to have completed at least two years of university by summer 2027 to be eligible for this scheme.
This role is designed for a sandwich year student.
Successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of this scheme.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa scheme.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK or only have a right to work here for a limited time, you should be aware that TfL will be unable to sponsor you for this role.

Skills

Planning
Development
Transport
Built environment
Real estate
Property development
Surveying
Academia
Innovation
Political and corporate communications
Development management
Transport planning
Policy making
Regeneration
Master planning
Sustainability
Local Government
Civil Service
Planning consultancy
Housebuilding

Location

Stratford, London, E20 1JN
Victoria, London, SW1

Work Type

Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote)
Full-time

Experience Level

Year in Industry
Sandwich year student

Education Level

Working towards a minimum of a 2:2 degree in urban planning, geography or another relevant built-environment/real estate discipline
Completing Bachelors degree before Masters/Diploma year (for Places for London role)

Salary/Compensations

£27,029

Benefits

Free travel on the TfL network for you and a nominee who lives in the same household
Discounted national rail and Eurostar travel
Minimum 28 days Annual leave (Pro rata dependent on role) plus public and bank holidays
Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
Retail, health, leisure and travel offers

About the Company

At Transport for London (TfL), we are offering two distinct Year in Industry pathways, each providing unique experiences.
Places for London, is TfL’s dedicated commercial property company to manage its commercial estate and property development.
Our award-winning teams will support your ongoing development, through a wide range of on-the-job practical experience.
Our core values are extremely important to us, and seek to recruit candidates who are: Caring about our colleagues, our customers and our work; Open to each other, to new ideas and to working together; Adaptable to diverse needs and willing to innovate.
TfL is a place that’s open to your ideas. Where you can make a tangible impact and see the positive results of your work on the people and places around you. It’s a place where you can thrive and achieve. Where you’re encouraged and enabled and empowered to feel pride in the work you do. The clue is in the name, really. We work together for a better London. A better place for everyone. Constantly improving and enhancing how we operate to shape a city of the future.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met.
In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them.
Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.
In High Volume campaigns including Graduate, Apprentice and Intern recruitment the minimum criteria we set is achieving a pass mark in our first stage assessments, adopting a proportionate approach to the Disability Confident Offer an Interview scheme.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments for any stages of the application process.