Senior Planning Officer

Summary: The Senior Planning Officer role involves preparing and reviewing reports on planning and regeneration projects, presenting applications at committee meetings, and mentoring junior staff. The position requires leading complex inquiries and providing planning advice during the application validation process. This role operates in a hybrid working environment and is based in Harrow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare and review professional reports and formulate recommendations on major and minor planning and regeneration projects for decision at the Planning Committee or by way of delegated process.
• Present planning applications at planning committee meetings answering questions from the committee members as necessary, to inform their decision.
• Mentoring and training of junior staff.
• Determination of certain categories of planning application in accordance with the Council's Scheme of Delegation.
• Lead in dealing with problems, complex enquiries and other contentious cases and issues as they arise.
• Assessing the validity and supporting the registration of major planning applications as required.
• Provide appropriate planning advice to the planning administration team in the validation process for new planning applications and/or to undertake the tasks required for the accurate validation and allocation of in-coming applications for all category types, when required.

Key Skills:

• Experience in planning and regeneration projects.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to mentor and train junior staff.
• Knowledge of planning application processes and regulations.
• Problem-solving skills for complex inquiries.
• Effective communication skills for committee presentations.

Salary (Rate): £38.00 Hourly

City: Harrow

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: Hybrid

IR35 Status: Undetermined

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior Planning Officer

Harrow

£38ph

Hybrid Working

Duties:

• Prepare and review professional reports and formulate recommendations on major and minor planning and regeneration projects for decision at the Planning Committee or by way of delegated process.
• Present planning applications at planning committee meetings answering questions from the committee members as necessary, to inform their decision.
• Mentoring and training of junior staff.
• Determination of certain categories of planning application in accordance with the Council s Scheme of Delegation
• Lead in dealing with problems, complex enquiries and other contentious cases and issues as they arise.
• Assessing the validity and supporting the registration of major planning applications as required.
• Provide appropriate planning advice to the planning administration team in the validation process for new planning applications and/or to undertake the tasks required for the accurate validation and allocation of in-coming applications for all category types, when required.

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