Temporary Two-Year: Senior Infrastructure Planning Officer: Garden Community

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community (TCBGC) Project Team, working with neighbouring authorities, key stakeholders and developers, to have a comprehensive oversight of infrastructure requirements and delivery throughout the planning application process.

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 experience of negotiating detailed community infrastructure requirements, and overseeing legal aspects, such as S106 agreements, to facilitate timely infrastructure provision within the Garden Community.

The Council offers 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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