Town Planning Validations Officer
 
At Carrington West we are assisting our local authority client based in the South East with their search for a Planning Validations Officer to join their Planning Department on a 3-month contract.
 
My client is looking for an experienced Planning Officer who holds an RTPI accredited qualification to undertake a role within the Development Management Team working on complex minor and small major applications.
 
Purpose of the role:
To validate planning applications and carry out all associated admin duties, to ensure an efficient and at speed Validations Service for the Development Management section.
About you:
- You will have proven organisational, communication and IT skills, including prioritising and allocating work to meet conflicting deadlines.
- You will have experience of providing a professional and timely service for customers.
- You will be experienced in delivering service in a client support and/or customer services environment.
- You will have the ability of dealing with numbers and data to produce and interpret management information.

You will:
- Provide day-to-day support for the professional Planning Officers, while taking personal responsibility for validating and all admin tasks associated with processing planning applications (e.g. pre-applications, appeals, and issuing of decision notices).
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of planning issues and procedures.
- Prepare and dispatch application documents for scanning and carry out quality control assessments.
- Produce standard and non-standard statistical reports from the Planning computer system as requested.
- Contribute to the processing of minor proposal applications by carrying out area or volume calculations, site visits, checking planning history and assessing compliance.
 
Interviews to be held via video/telephone.
 
CARRINGTON WEST RATE -  £18-22 per hour
 
JOB REF - 22976 
 
If you feel that you are right for this job technically, but the salary/rate, location or seniority does not suit you specifically then please still feel free to send us your CV. We constantly recruit for roles very similar to this one at all levels UK Wide. We are always keen to chat with you discreetly about your employment situation.
 
Please call Ben Hitchman on 02393876027 or click apply.