Planning Officer - Development Management

What's involved with this role:
Interim Planning Officer - Development Management
Reference no: Richmond & Wandsworth 7401-1
Pay rate: Up to £26.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience
Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: TWICKENHAM
A Planning Officer is required to work in Development Management and deal with Planning Applications and related work. To deliver high quality, robust and transparent decision making within tight time frames to ensure that the Planning Service is recognised as delivering an excellent planning service for all customers. To independently manage a caseload of a number of complex and/or high-profile planning applications, pre-application advice requests and correspondence to agreed and identifiable time scales and deliver a well-reasoned officer recommendation which delivers a successful planning outcome.
Key responsibilities:
Work without close supervision and with personal responsibility for a range of Development Management case work including pre-application advice, the processing planning applications, Certificate of Lawfulness, advertisement applications, prior notifications, ensuring that these are effectively and efficiently carried out to identifiable deadlines in a manner that is consistent with planning policy and is successful in meeting corporate targets and objectives.
Assess, negotiate and set out clear and robust recommendations in an accurate, well written officer report based on relevant planning policies and other material considerations.
Undertake more complex written representative appeals and prepare the Council’s case and lead at informal hearings.
Provide advice and guidance as required in response to planning best practice, procedure or policy within a legal/organisational policy framework and develop solutions or recommendations to meet service needs.
Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and to take a proactive approach to relevant changes in legislation.
Ensure that the electronic copy of the planning application, pre-application advice and correspondence is the master copy and that all electronic and paper copies of your own case work is up-to-date before any decision is made.
Provide advice and guidance in response to planning best practice, procedure or policy within a legal/organisational policy framework.
Ensure that service-wide and corporate performance indicators, targets and customer service standards are met for the full range of the workload.
Lead on the preparation of evidence for written representation appeals.
Initiate and participate in matters relating to compliance and enforcement matters and conflict resolution to ensure high quality innovative outcomes that reflect Council-wide objectives and policies.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
A degree in planning or other appropriate professional qualification and a member of the RTPI or eligible for or working toward full membership.
Experience:
Relevant experience in local government planning work including preparation of development plan documents or dealing with enforcement complaints or planning applications or equivalent.
Knowledge:
Developing knowledge and understanding of Planning legislation, policy guidance and circulars, practice and case law and the ability to apply that knowledge in negotiating and delivering highly complex and high-risk planning applications within agreed timeframes in order to deliver a responsive, high-quality service at speed Development Management Service.
Knowledge and understanding of effective customer relations and customer care practices.
Understanding of the need to negotiate and deliver planning and other consent applications within agreed timeframes in order to deliver a responsive, high-quality service at speed Development Management Service.
Skills & Abilities:
Clear understanding of IT systems generally including Microsoft Office, measuring software and planning database system and document management systems.
Ability to work effectively to meet challenging deadlines and manage competing and changing priorities.
Articulate in written and oral communication skills with particular reference to report and letter writing, public speaking, presentation skills and communicating with Members, the public, staff and other professionals.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
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Job Ref: Richmond & Wandsworth 7401-1
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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