Planning Policy Officer (Local Plan)

Planning Policy Officer (Local Plan)

Salary: £38,626-£39,513

We are offering a Planning Policy Officer (Local Plan) role for a passionate and experienced planner to play a key role in driving our new Local Plan forward.

You will be uniquely placed to prepare and deliver a new plan which will shape the three areas of Preston, Chorley and South Ribble for the next fifteen years, ensuring we deliver our key priorities around climate change and the natural environment and supporting our communities to create jobs and training opportunities, deliver new homes and plan for the infrastructure needed to sustain our boroughs.

This role is mainly based in the Chorley office, but will require you to work flexibly across Chorley, Preston, and South Ribble Council Offices.

What you’ll be getting up to

• Supporting development of the Central Lancashire Local Plan.
• Providing professional planning policy capacity in all aspects of the Local Plan making process.

Who we’re looking for

• A qualified planning officer with an appetite for shaping the future of areas and with experience of planning policy and plan making.
• Degree or postgraduate qualification (RTPI recognised) in Town Planning.
• Chartered member of the RTPI or Licentiate with evidence of working towards MRTPI.

Other requirements

• This role requires some travel around our boroughs. You should have a valid driving licence or the equivalent mobility.

Our Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown).
• Hybrid/agile working from day one.
• Local Government pension.
• Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments.
• Cashback website access for savings on brands you love.
• Volunteering days.
• Free parking.
• Car Allowance.

Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.

About Us

Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.

Working Together

We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.

Additional information

Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.

Equal Opportunities

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.

We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.

If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Closing Date: 26 January 2025.

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