Role: Senior Planning Officer (Infrastructure) REF 19017
Contract Length: 3 months
Location: Hybrid/Ipswich - 1 day a week working from home
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £45 per hour
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Planning Officer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR PLANNING OFFICER
- Provide timely, clear and effective professional advice to the public, councillors and colleagues on a range of planning matters, which may include Minerals and Waste policy, development management matters and the processes involved in consenting and delivering NSIPs;
- Assist with the County Council’s required inputs at various stages of the delivery of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects including technical and professional input, including instructing legal representatives;
- Work with and support other planning staff involved in programming NSIPs and providing technical input;
- Attend inquiries and examinations in public to represent the county council on its position;
- Providing professional planning advice and support for corporate development projects and other initiatives.
- Monitoring and keeping under review the Minerals and Waste Local Plan.
- Formulating responses to Local and Neighbourhood Plans and major planning applications, including NSIPs
- Assisting with the alignment of delivery of infrastructure through Local Plans, the Community Infrastructure Levy and section 106
- Provide the strategic planning input to the preparation of Local Plans (and other associated documents) by the District/Borough/Parish Councils in a manner which reflects the corporate priorities of the Council.
- Attend local plan examinations and planning inquiries.
- Managing a caseload of planning applications, preparing reports for, and attendance at, Development and Regulatory Committee
- Mentoring members of the Team in matters related to their professional development
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR PLANNING OFFICER
- Degree in a development-related discipline (e.g. planning, transport, housing).
- Qualifications necessary for membership of a relevant professional organisation.
- Advanced knowledge of planning law and policy and detailed knowledge of the operation of the systems governing Community Infrastructure Levy and planning obligations.
- Intermediate knowledge of computer spreadsheets, databases and other software.
- Negotiation skills and knowledge of the economics of the development process.
- Experience of the planning process such as analysing reports or data associated with planning applications, policy formulation and implementation.
- Experience of working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to develop shared solutions to complex problems.
If you are a Senior Planning Officer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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