Temporary Two-Year - Senior Planning Officer: Garden Community

This exciting opportunity allows the officer to join the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community (TCBGC) Project Team, working with neighbouring authorities to focus on progressing planning applications to help drive forward and influence, this nationally important strategic new development.

The Garden Community will provide a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a place to live, work and play in a better way.  This role will provide the opportunity to help shape a brand-new community to embrace and deliver the very best in placemaking for the future.

You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence, values its members, and which will make a real difference to the lives of existing and future residents.  The Project Team is a multi-disciplinary team of planners, urban designers and other built environment professionals, working across the joint authorities of Tendring District, Colchester City and Essex County Councils.  

Our ideal candidate will have an excellent grasp of development management, planning policy implementation and the application of national legislation when reviewing planning application documents. You will have considerable experience dealing with complex planning applications and appeals and an extensive knowledge of planning legislation and national policies.  

The Council offer a great range of employee benefits including: -

• Potential discretionary market forces supplement.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.

• Generous leave entitlement.

• Free parking.

• Discounted Corporate Gym Membership.

• A number of Salary Sacrifice initiatives.

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