Planning Officer - Gateshead, United Kingdom - Gateshead Council

Gateshead Council

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Gateshead, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Planning Officer

Scale E to J
(Full Time - 37 hours per week)

About the role.
An opportunity has arisen for a Planning Officer within the Spatial Planning team.

We are at an early stage in next review of the Local Plan - following the adoption of Making Spaces for Growing Places, a site allocations plan, in February 2021, which sits under the Joint Core Strategy and Urban Core Plan (adopted in March You will join us as work progresses on this, along with other planning documents and evidence.

The role will involve helping prepare the Council's Local Plan and associated planning policy documents.

This will include assembling key evidence for the Local Plan including flood risk and water management, and helping to ensure effective monitoring and consultation.

You will also be required to undertake any administrative procedures necessary for the smooth progression of the Local Plan and other spatial planning documents.

Please take a look at the full job profile. It's important that you read it in full and check that you meet the essential criteria.

A bit about Gateshead Council

We're truly committed to providing our customers with the highest quality of service and we need like-minded people who can help us deliver a sector leading service.

We need people who want to make a difference, who are talented, possess the right knowledge and skills and who want the chance to demonstrate how good they are.

What's in it for you? Well, there's so much on offer and here's just a few of the highlights

You'll be paid a competitive salary plus additional allowances where relevant.
We'll help you save for your future with an outstanding employer contribution to your pension of approximately 18.9% per year.
You'll get a generous annual leave package of 28 days annual leave for new employees, rising to 32 days after 5 years continuous local government service.
You have the chance to buy up to 10 additional holidays per year.
You'll have access to great health and wellbeing support, including discounted membership to GO Gateshead Leisure Services and ability to use our cycle to work scheme.
We'll give you the chance to take advantage of various offers and discounts on shopping and household spend, including O2, Virgin Media and Dell

You must have knowledge and experience of

Spatial Planning including good knowledge of the plan preparation process and associated legislation
Undertaking research, analysing data and preparing evidence on environmental issues including flood risk and water management, which will inform the development of planning policy and climate emergency initiatives which you will be involved with
Monitoring and data management, and helping to set up digital platforms
Working independently as well as part of a team
Writing reports and presentations, providing good customer focus and helping to organize and undertake consultation exercises
IT systems including Microsoft Office suite
Organisational and time management skills

You must have the following qualifications.