Noble Recruiting are working with a local council to support them in hiring a Senior Planning Officer.

Contract - 3 Months

Job Responsibility:

To contribute towards the delivery a high quality, customer focused Planning & Implementation department with high standards of advice and support, resolving cases of varying complexities in Development Management.

Ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, legislation, professional codes of practice and adherence to Council policy. Deliver projects, interventions and initiatives and develop policies in line with corporate and business plans. To deal effectively and efficiently with general enquiries, pre-applications, planning applications and planning appeals ensuring cases are managed and completed at the appropriate level of skillset. Ensure and develop appropriate levels of quality and specialist knowledge with other Planning & Implementation colleagues.

• Deliver customer-focused specialist advice and services, keeping up to date with current and emerging legislation, best practice and policy to ensure continuous development and improvement in services.
• Manage complex and/or contentious planning applications, processes and compliance, regulations and legislation, acting as the single point of contact for customers on those cases and attending appeals hearings and public inquiries as appropriate.
• Support Graduate Planners and Technical Support colleagues.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, as well as Members and managing key relationships with partners including Local Councils and other stakeholders
• Update all relevant information systems, both customer and back office ensuring that the master customer record is updated and maintained through verification and validation, and in accordance with Data Protection principles
• Prepare and present reports to Area Planning Committees, District Planning Committee, and other internal and external meetings and present evidence/stand as witness at planning appeal hearings and public inquiries.

Your Experience:

• Experience of Town Planning applications within a broad range of complexity and contentiousness
• Proven ability to give advice on a range of planning cases
• Ability to enforce legislation where a breach of planning control is suspected.

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Application Status: Due to the high volume of applications, if you haven't heard from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful at this time.