Highways Planning Officer WCC624024 in City of Westminster

Salary range: £42,912 - £46,854 pro-rata, per annum (actual salary £25,747- £28,112 per annum). Salary negotiable depending upon experience.

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QPHours per week: 21.60

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: 31 May 2026

Interview date: 12 and 19 June 2026

The Role: As a Highways Planning Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution at the heart of a world-class city. Playing a key role in maintaining Westminster’s status as one of the world’s greenest cities, you’ll be responsible for assessing highway, traffic, parking and other transportation issues relating to planning applications and development proposals. A source of expert guidance and advice on new legislation, highway planning, and waste storage, you’ll work collaboratively with colleagues and partner agencies to build climate resilience in a dense urban environment.

Negotiating with property developers and external organisations will form an essential part of your remit, and you’ll help secure funding for improvements to highways, traffic and environmental schemes through sponsorship. An established professional with engineering or transport planning experience, you’ll have good knowledge of the powers of highway and planning authorities, alongside knowledge of the following legislation:

• Town & Country Planning Act
• The Refuse Disposal Amenity Act 1978
• Road Traffic Act 1984

On a personal level, you’ll be a natural communicator with great organisational, time management and planning skills. Your written communication skills will be great, and you’ll be confident drafting and contributing to concise, high-quality reports, briefing notes and responses to Freedom of Information requests, complaints and enquiries. Balancing competing priorities will be second nature, and you’ll take a meticulous, thorough approach to everything you do.

In this role, you’ll be encouraged to be yourself, develop and take ownership of new ideas, and lead on exciting changes to the Westminster highway network. Joining a supportive and industry-leading team, you’ll get unrivalled exposure to training, upskilling and mentorship. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a vital role in shaping the highway network of one of London’s most diverse boroughs, and to super-charge your career in the process.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer: Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working. The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.