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Planning Team Manager – Development Management

Employer
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Salary
Grade 7 £42,429-£49,112 per annum
Closing date
7 Feb 2022

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Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Discipline
Planning
Function
Manager
Sector
Local Authority

Job Details

Job title: Planning Team Manager – Development Management

Salary: Grade 7 £42,429-£49,112 per annum

Location: Cambourne/The Guildhall

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full time 37 hours per week

Closing date: 9:00am Monday 7 February 2022

Interview Date: 24 and 28 February 2022

Looking for an exciting role in an award-winning Planning service?

As an organisation we believe that our people are our greatest assets.  We know how important it is to find a job where you feel valued but also have the flexibility to allow you to balance your work/family commitments in an organisation that offers a competitive benefits package including:

  • Local Government Pension Scheme,
  • 25 days holiday entitlement (increasing to 27 after five years continuous service),
  • Free on-site Parking,
  • Shopping Discounts,
  • Employee Assistance Programme-providing advice and counselling,
  • Career progression  
  • Development opportunities as well as ongoing training.

We currently have an exciting opportunity within the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service for a Planning Team Manager within the Development Management part of the service.  Leading one of three DM geographical area teams, you would be responsible for a team of planners focusing on planning applications and appeals within the southern part of the Greater Cambridge area. As part of this role, you will have the chance to get involved in negotiations and work on some of the most innovative developments in the UK.  In addition, you would play a key role in our ongoing planning service transformation process, with the opportunity to get involved in a wide range of related projects.  

What sets us apart from other organisations is our wide range of developments , including meeting the planning needs of Europe’s most important biotechnology cluster, the delivery of two new towns at Northstowe and Waterbeach, nationally significant infrastructure projects and developing the first joint Local Plan in an area that has the fastest-growing city economy in the country. 

Greater Cambridge offers a unique opportunity to work within the beautiful historic City of Cambridge, home to world renowned universities, hospitals and cutting-edge science, as well as delivering high quality modern developments within the rural areas of South Cambridgeshire.  Our combined growth agenda includes a range of new settlements within South Cambridgeshire and urban extensions to Cambridge. 

Our teams have excellent relationships with local practices and work with world class architects and specialists on schemes that provide huge personal and professional reward.  If you would like to work on award winning schemes in an exciting and fast paced environment, come and join us! 

For this important management role, we are looking for an individual with substantive Development Management experience including of dealing with major, complex planning applications as well as significant people management experience.  We are looking for a motivated and well -organised individual with a good knowledge of planning legislation and procedures. Excellent communications and customer service skills are a must as well being a team player.   If you have the ambition to embrace the exciting challenges of this busy Shared Planning Service, there is no better place to develop your career.

For more information about working with us check out our website: http://www.greatercambridgesharedplanning.com/

For an informal conversation about this job opportunity within the Planning Service contact either Nigel Blazeby (Delivery Manager –Development Management ) on 07827 233836 or Philippa Kelly (Delivery Manager -Strategic Sites ) on 07704 018468

Company

South Cambridgeshire District Council

https://www.scambs.gov.uk/

The Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service covering Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas in the country to be a planner, with many strategic site developments at different stages and a new Local Plan to deliver.

The range of opportunities we have provides you with the chance to be at the centre, and shape how the service develops; meeting the challenges of delivering an extraordinary range of innovative and rewarding projects. In Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire we have nationally significant schemes. These range from: regeneration, to providing a new low carbon district on the edge of the city and a healthy new town at Northstowe.

Through to meeting the planning needs of Europe’s most important biotechnology cluster, and leading the first joint Local Plan in an area that has the fastest-growing city economy in the country.

A wonderful Place to work and explore

Few areas can match South Cambridgeshire, when it comes to growth. There are 23,500 new homes planned by 2021- and the new 9,500 -
home town of Northstowe on the drawing board too - we’re the fastest expanding district in the East of England.

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