Policy and Planning Manager

4 days ago

Swindon, Swindon, United Kingdom CRA GROUP LIMITED Full time
Job Description

4 months contract with a Local Authority

Job Summary:
  • To provide senior level planning expertise to deliver the council's planning functions in a customer-focused and solutions-led way, creating the right conditions for accelerating high-quality development and supporting sustainable growth in Swindon.
  • To manage, develop, and deliver all aspects of statutory planning policy for Swindon Borough, including planning for transformational strategic projects of a sub-regional scale, the Borough-wide Local Plan, Infrastructure delivery plans, Neighbourhood Plans, Statements of Community Involvement, Supplementary Planning Documents, and a Local Development Scheme.
  • To provide justification and monitoring of Planning policy and guidance, including the management and control of all resources required to undertake the projects and to prepare and present appropriate recommendations to policy-making bodies, examinations, appeals, and tribunals.
  • To engage in joint working looking towards longer-term development of the Swindon area, including with Wiltshire Council, local communities, and other statutory consultees.
Key Duties/Accountabilities:
  • To position planning services as the 'growth engine' to unlock activity that contributes to the local economy through the delivery of new housing and strategically important economic development initiatives, including liaison with external agencies.
  • To coordinate and manage external consultants, partners, and expert consultees who input into the service, ensuring each organisation or group can do so in the most effective and cost-efficient manner and understands their roles and responsibilities.
  • To develop and build progressive relationships with strategic delivery partners and local industries to achieve strategic objectives relating to place-making and delivery of customer-focused value for money service solutions for all aspects of the service.
  • To lead on analysis in relation to sub-regional and local infrastructure, housing, and employment land supply and requirements.
  • To manage and coordinate the preparation, monitoring, and review of the Development Plan, including the delivery of a Local Plan for Swindon Borough, infrastructure delivery plan, Neighbourhood Development Plans, Minerals and Waste Plans, a Statement of Community Involvement, and Supplementary Planning Guidance.
  • To coordinate and deliver key projects required in the production of statutory planning documents for Swindon Borough and its neighbourhoods/localities, including the management of staff allocated to each project.
  • To coordinate a policy input into strategic major planning applications as required and respond to Government consultations, including draft planning legislation and guidance, on behalf of the Local Authority.
  • To ensure the co-ordinated long-term delivery of strategic infrastructure, including green infrastructure, built, and natural environmental enhancement.
  • The key accountabilities outlined above are intended as a general guide to the duties attached to the post and is not an inflexible specification. It may therefore be altered from time to time to reflect the changing needs of the Service Area, always in consultation with the post holder.
  • To provide guidance to elected members enabling them to take strategic planning decisions in line with relevant legislation and the direction of the Local Plan.
  • To be commercially aware and recognise the impacts of your day-to-day work in unlocking and supporting development and the needs of development partners.
  • To embed and maintain the rigour of key service performance indicators and planning outputs which exceed national and local targets.
  • To provide clear direction and a motivational and inspirational environment for teams and individuals to develop.
  • To respond to queries from internal or external sources regarding policy issues relating to local and/or neighbourhood policies about individual sites, including an assessment of development potential.
  • To promote the Council's policies and procedures for good records management, ensuring that all information related to the post and functional responsibilities is created, maintained, stored, and retrieved in accordance with the Council's procedures and policies and legislative requirements.

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