Planning Officer

1 month ago


Totnes, United Kingdom Acorn Recruitment Limited Full time

Job title: Planning Officer

Location: Totnes/Tavistock

Pay: £15.02 per hour

Hours: full-time, temporary, 37 hours per week
- Agile working *

Are you looking for your new role within the public sector? Do you have experience in planning?

As a planning officer your duties will include:

- Providing clear and impartial advice and responding to queries from a range of stakeholders including elected Members, residents, applicants, agents and developers
- Producing and presenting clear and accurate reports articulating clearly both the proposal, the key determining issues and setting out appropriate recommendations
- Attending the Councils' Development Management Committees to present reports and details of recommendations and reasons for decisions
- Dealing with planning appeals through written representation, hearings or public inquiries

Essential skills required:

- A degree in Town and Country Planning/Urban and Regional Planning (or similar/equivalent) or working towards this
- Excellent working knowledge of planning legislation, national planning policy and planning reforms
- Proactive approach to work and committed to providing excellent customer service
- Ability to access transport, sometimes at short notice, and travel to sites around the two districts including remote locations +

Our client operates in an agile working environment where hybrid working is possible. This role cannot be fully remote as there is a need to attend site visits and committee meetings.

Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.


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