Planning Assistant

6 days ago

Bristol, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time

**How you'll make a difference**:
You will make a difference by making South Gloucestershire a great place to live, visit and work in by delivering a high quality environment for the enjoyment of all residents and our visitors. Join our Strategic planning team and contribute towards providing an exceptional service.

**What you will doing?**
- Our Strategic Planning and Housing Division brings together planning policy, development management, housing enabling and economic development professionals, together with responsibilities for delivering sustainable development in accord with the Councils Core Strategy.
- In this role you will liaise with elected members, Town and Parish Councils, colleagues, applicants and residents you will ensure that high quality planning decisions are made.
- Due to the nature of this role you will be required to travel on Council business on a regular basis, so you must have a current driving license (pool cars are available), or have access to appropriate means of travel.

**What we need from you**:

- You will be educated to degree level or equivalent preferably in Town Planning. If your experience is not in Town Planning you should have knowledge/experience of development control objectives, procedures and planning law, plus willingness for further training.
- Ideally, you will have the ability to understand and use scaled drawings and maps as well as relevant experience in the use of electronic mapping (GIS) and database systems.
- You will need to have an understanding and knowledge of planning legislation.
- You should be a confident communicator, both in conversation and in writing and have the ability conduct a presentation and using your negotiation skills.

**How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different**:

- We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference and we continue to **invest in technology** to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and **celebrate innovation**.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our **training and development** offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
- We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

**We’re making a difference, be part of it

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