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Planning Officer

Employer
West Suffolk Council
Location
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Salary
£24,657 - £25,463 per annum depending on qualifications/experience
Closing date
20 Dec 2018

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We currently have an opportunity at West Suffolk Councils for a Planning Officer to join our team based in Bury St Edmunds. In return, you will receive a competitive starting salary £24,657 - £25,463 per annum depending on qualifications/experience (potentially rising to £29,909 through annual Performance Review awards) plus excellent employee benefits package.

We are about to embark on the next milestone of our journey in becoming a Single Council by 2019 while continuing to manage  growth and there has never been a more exciting time to join us and help innovate and drive that change. We are part of the UK economic engine and have earned a national reputation for being an organisation that gets things done and listened to by Government.

The Planning Officer role:

You will be expected to deal with a range of applications for planning permission and other consents, as well as dealing with pre-application enquiries and appeals.

Site visits are required in a large rural area and so the suitable candidates will need to hold a current driving licence and/or the ability to travel around West Suffolk.

Our ideal Planning Officer:

- A flexible approach to work with a ‘can do’ attitude

- Hardworking and confident

- The ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues and key stakeholders both internally and externally

- Ideally you would have a relevant professional qualification and experience in Development Management

- We would welcome applications from those with relevant experience or qualified with no experience, and the desire to become a qualified Planning Officer on a career progression basis

What can we offer our Planning Officer?

If you have the experience and skills, and embrace the opportunities that working in such a dynamic environment brings, then we can offer you a fascinating, challenging, dynamic, supported and always interesting workplace here in West Suffolk. 

In addition, our benefits package includes a generous pension scheme, genuinely flexible working arrangements, performance related pay reviews, learning & development opportunities, and discounts on supermarkets and high street shops, cashback on holidays, childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme and money off household bills and much more.

Closing date: 3rd December 2018

Interview date: 13th December 2018

For further information or an informal chat please contact Dave Beighton, Principal Planning Officer on 01638 719470 or email dave.beighton@westsuffolk.gov.uk

If this is an opportunity and challenge that you are interested in, why not click ‘apply’ today to become our Planning Officer. We’d love to hear from you!

Please note CV’s will not be accepted

With effect from 1 April 2019 we will become a single council and will be known as West Suffolk Council.

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