Work pattern: 4 days remote, 1 day in the office, 36 hours per week
PAYE Pay Rate: £22.44 per hour
Main Purpose of the Role
To manage a varied caseload of planning applications and development management matters, ensuring decisions are made efficiently and in line with planning legislation and national and local policies.
The role involves supporting sustainable development across Sefton, providing professional planning advice, handling enforcement matters and contributing to the Council’s regeneration and development objectives.
Typical Day Overview
- Manage and assess a busy caseload of planning applications.
- Review development proposals against planning policies and legislation.
- Prepare planning reports and recommendations for approval or refusal.
- Provide planning advice to developers, residents and other stakeholders.
- Deal with planning appeals, enforcement issues and breaches of planning control.
- Attend planning committees, meetings and stakeholder discussions.
- Support regeneration projects and the development of planning policies.
- Provide guidance and support to junior planning colleagues where required.
Key Skills & Responsibilities
- Development Management: Manage planning applications and ensure timely, well-informed decisions.
- Planning Legislation: Apply knowledge of national planning policies, statutory procedures and local planning policies.
- Caseload Management: Handle a busy workload covering applications, appeals, enforcement and compliance.
- Report Writing: Prepare clear planning reports, recommendations and appeal statements.
- Customer Service: Provide professional advice and respond to enquiries, complaints and planning-related concerns.
- Enforcement: Investigate breaches of planning control and deal with compliance matters.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Work with developers, local communities, council departments and external agencies.
- Communication: Present planning recommendations and represent the service at planning committees and hearings.
- Team Support: Provide advice, guidance and training to junior members of the planning team.
Essential Qualifications & Requirements
- Qualification in Town Planning or a relevant discipline, such as Conservation, Urban Design, Spatial Planning or Geography with a planning focus.
- Alternatively, significant relevant experience working within a Town Planning role.
- Experience providing customer service within a Development Management Planning Service.
- Significant experience managing a busy Development Management caseload, including planning applications, enforcement, compliance and appeals.
- Knowledge of national planning policies and statutory procedures.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and numeracy skills.
- IT skills, including using software to assess planning applications and prepare reports.
- Positive attitude towards professional development and service delivery.
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