AddressAs a Senior Planning Officer in Development Management, you will play a key role in determining the Council's planning applications and helping to meet our objectives of encouraging sustainable and well-designed development. You will play a significant role in the enhancement and protection of the built and natural environment in Cheshire East.
We are looking for a team player with the skills and experience to assess complex planning applications with minimum supervision and to support the development of more junior team members. Location base: Crewe or Macclesfield. The team employs hybrid working arrangements with time split between an office base and home working.
The post is subject to a generous market supplement and grade review.
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
Brighter Future
Employee benefits (cheshireeast.gov.uk)
We are seeking a dynamic Senior Planning Officer to join our high performing Development Management team, which is at the heart of delivering high quality sustainable development in Cheshire East. Our unique geography and heritage provide an unrivalled variety of planning experience, ranging from small scale rural schemes to urban regeneration, housing developments and strategic infrastructure projects.
As a Senior Planning Officer, you will manage a caseload of planning applications for a diverse range of development schemes and provide support to junior members of the team as required. You will have responsibility to negotiate with developers at pre-application stage, present to Planning Committee and represent the Council at Appeal. You must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with all stakeholders in the planning process.
You must be organised with excellent report writing and IT skills. The successful candidate will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of current local and national planning policy and have a track record of negotiating improvements to development proposals through the planning application process.
You should be qualified to degree level within Planning or a related discipline, be eligible for RTPI membership. You must enjoy a challenge, be a self-motivated team player and have a customer focused approach. Ability to travel throughout Cheshire East and a full UK driving license are required. Hybrid arrangements are supported with time split between office and home working.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact peter.hooley@cheshireeast.gov.uk
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.
For any technical enquiries please email sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk
Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.
