Interim Senior Planning Officer

🔹 Contract: Temporary, initial 6 months 

🔹 Location: Hybrid (1–2 days on-site per week, can negotiate additional flexibility) 

🔹 Pay: £40-45/hour

The Role

As Senior Planning Officer, you’ll be responsible for evaluating and processing a variety of planning applications, ensuring high-quality development that aligns with the council's objectives. 

Key responsibilities include: 

✔️ Assessing and determining a range of planning applications, including occasional majors

✔️ Providing pre-application advice to developers and stakeholders and managing complex casework

✔️ Interpreting out-of-date policies in the context of housing land supply shortfalls

✔️ Delivering high-quality planning outcomes across a wide range of development types

✔️ Preparing and presenting detailed committee reports

✔️ Collaborating effectively with stakeholders and internal teams

✔️ Preparing reports, commissioning consultations, and presenting cases at Development Management Committee meetings 

✔️ Representing the Council at planning appeals 

What We're Looking For

To excel in this role, you will ideally have: 

✅ A planning degree or RTPI-recognized postgraduate qualification (or equivalent experience) 

✅ Strong knowledge of Development Management best practices 

✅ Extensive understanding of planning legislation and its application

✅ Ability to work independently, managing a varied caseload of major planning applications 

✅ Problem-solving skills, with the ability to make decisive decisions 

✅ Excellent communication skills for liaising with stakeholders, developers, and council representatives

Why Join Us?

✔️ Work on planning applications that shape the community 

✔️ Collaborate with industry experts and local government officials 

✔️ Be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team

To apply:

• Give me a call: 07378546945 (8:30-19:00)
• Reach out to me on LinkedIn.
• Email me: laura.haynes@oysterpartnership.com

We would like to attract talent from all corners of the Property world for this role. Our commitment is to an equitable recruitment process so feel free to apply in any way that suits you, via WhatsApp, video message, CV, the more creative the better.