Senior Planning Officer

Senior Planning Officer - Tower Hamlets

£22.19 - £28.50 per hour 

Contract - Full Time - 5 Days per week - 9am - 5pm 

Duties/Responsibilitie

• Provide high quality specialised planning services that meet the needs of Tower Hamlets’ multi-cultural communities, including; managing planning proposals and applications, developing planning policy and delivering planning strategy and projects and assisting with policy development relating to the services provide
• to undertake responsibilities for the processing and negotiation of pre-application proposals including co-ordinating all associated assessment work including Environmental Impact Assessments and input into planning statements/briefs/and appropriate technical practice notes
• to undertake responsibilities for the processing and determination of planning applications and the enforcement of planning control under the relevant legislation, including listed building consents and conservation area consents and co-ordinating all associated assessment work including Environmental Impact Assessments
• researching, procuring, analysing, monitoring and evaluating information as part of the plan-making and delivery process;
• producing and working with others, including the local community, to produce planning policy and documents as part of the plan-making process; and producing and delivering planning strategies, co-ordination of strategic delivery initiatives such as improving town centres and all planning project work.
• Promote the work and services of the Directorate through effective liaison with other internal and external services and bodies.
• To contribute to the delivery of the spatial elements of the Community Plan through the effective operation of planning tools and powers in accordance with the visions and values.
• To contribute to the regeneration of the borough through the effective application of all planning powers and partnership working with regeneration agencies.

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