Senior Town Planner

• Managing a variety of planning applications, appeals and pre-application enquiries.
• Prepare a range of planning documents required to support applications including sequential assessments and planning statements.
• Prepare and progress applications through the planning system.
• Liaise with officers at Local Planning Authorities pre, during and post-application.
• Communicating with relevant parties regarding the status of planning applications and queries.
• Undertake site assessments to establish development potential to include site inspections, detailed examination of planning histories, policy analysis and interpretation and consideration of material considerations.
• Assess the planning merits of a site, formulating planning strategies to promote medium- and long-term development sites through the plan-making process.
• Prepare and submit client approved representations to development plan documents within agreed timescales.
• Prepare/co-ordinate evidence to support the allocation of sites/areas for development/growth at examination.

• An excellent understanding of client relationship management
• Excellent presentation skills
• Proven ability to manage workload, budgets, and project co-ordination
• Confidence and competence across a range of planning disciplines
• Experience in rural planning is beneficial, but not essential—an understanding of rural planning issues is valued

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