Planning Officer

5 days ago


Keynsham, United Kingdom Bath & North East Somerset Council Full time

**Hours: 37 Per week**

**Contract Type: Permanent**
**Service Area: Sustainable Communities**
**Department: Planning**

**We are looking to appoint a permanent full time Planning Officer within our busy Development Management team.

**The Role**

The council has moved to ‘blended’ working arrangements; this means a mix of office and home working is encouraged. The importance of face-to-face team contact however is recognised and therefore initiatives such as ‘team hotdesking Wednesdays’ for example have been instigated.

You will be based, together with the wider Planning Team, in the award-winning modern Keynsham Civic Centre in the centre of Keynsham, roughly mid-way between the centres of Bristol and Bath. Our Keynsham offices are highly accessible by both car and public transport with the mainline Keynsham Station located just 10 minutes-walk away. Hotdesking will also be available at Bath Guildhall as well as other council office hubs.

**Our Team**

You will be one of several Planning Officers (as well as three Senior Planning Officers and one Principal Planning Officer) in one of the council’s two Development Management teams - alongside our Planning & Enforcement team, Planning & Conservation team, Planning Policy team and Support team.

Our team is friendly, approachable and always willing to help. We operate a mentoring scheme enabling you to be both mentee and mentor if you wish Sharing knowledge and supporting one another is very important to us and meetings such as our regular ‘case busting’ session is just one way we enable this to happen.

As a team we perform very highly both in terms of the quality of the decisions we make and the speed in which we do so. Bath & North East Somerset Council is consistently the highest performing authority in the West of England in respect of our planning services. The quality of the service we provide has also been recognised through the RTPI Planning Excellence awards.

**Our Area**

You will be working in an area which is both urban and rural in nature; this provides the opportunity to become involved in a wide variety of interesting and multi-faceted development proposals.

Over 70% of Bath & North East Somerset falls within the Bristol & Bath Green Belt, which raises its own challenges. The South-Western corner of our area, including much of the attractive Chew Valley and its lake, is situated within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB); the far east falls within the Cotswolds AONB. The northern boundary of our area immediately abuts the urban edge of Bristol.

The city of Bath itself is one of only two cities in Europe where the entire urban area is covered by an UNESCO World Heritage Site designation (the other being Venice). This, together with a substantial conservation area and many thousands of Listed Buildings (including numerous listed at Grade I) ensures that a planning officer’s role here is always interesting

**Interested to find out more?**

**To apply**

Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose - to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be **Bold, Empowered, Supportive **and** Transparent**.

**As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.


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