Senior Planning Officer

Salary: £33,486 - £37,568 per annum

About The Role

North Norfolk is a fantastic place to live, work and visit – covering over 360 sq miles of coastal and rural environment, with a population of over 100,000 people living in 120 distinct communities, our District is one of England’s top holiday destinations and a place where people positively choose to live.

Are you passionate about planning? Are you looking to develop within a department that offers a diverse and varied range of projects and planning applications? If this is you, we want you to work for us!

The Development Management and Major Projects Team are responsible for a range of complex applications including housing and commercial as well as helping to deliver innovative solutions for affordable housing schemes.

They also determine a wide range of other application types including minor housing schemes, barn conversions, commercial development, listed building consents, advertisements and prior approvals. The Senior Planning Officer role deals with the more complex applications within the team.

About You

The successful candidate will be positive, enthusiastic and forward thinking, with a degree and professional qualification in Town and Country Planning together with eligibility for full membership of the RTPI.

Join an ambitious authority looking to realise its development aspirations and deliver growth while maintaining the unique and special qualities that make North Norfolk a better place to live work and visit.

We are looking for two Senior Planning officers to join our team, and can offer the successful candidates benefits including £5000 Golden Hello payment, relocation package and essential car user allowance.

For an informal discussion please contact: Colin Reuben, Development Management Team Leader on 01263 516361 or email colin.reuben@north-norfolk.gov.uk, or alternatively please contact Geoff Lyon, Development Management and Major Projects Manager on 01263 516226 or email geoff.lyon@north-norfolk.gov.uk

About Us

We're committed to promoting equality of opportunity for the people and communities of North Norfolk. We respect and value difference in our district and across our workforce, and we want everyone to feel included and able to play their part in making North Norfolk a great place to live, learn, work and visit.

Our coast and environment are really important to us. We are part of Coastal Partnership East, an organisation with responsibility for our coastline from Holkham to Felixstowe in Suffolk. We have a net zero strategy, and a team of people working to deliver these important initiatives.

As one of the largest employers in the district, we offer a number of benefits that are open to all employees. We have a really supportive culture of enabling our people to learn and grow through attending courses, e-learning, and their day to day job roles. Our office in Cromer is clean, modern and light with onsite lunchtime catering.

We have an active health and well-being group with a new strategy, mental health first aiders, domestic abuse change champions, employee assistant program, and employee discounts portal.

We have a great forum for communication with regular updates from Directors and Chief Executive, employee voice through our Staff Focus Group, and great working relationship with Unison, our onsite recognised union.

Most people that work for North Norfolk District Council are able to enjoy a great work life balance, as part of our hybrid approach to work. If your role supports hybrid working, all we ask is that you have a stable and reliable internet connection.

In terms of the numbers, if you are new to the public sector, you’ll enjoy 24 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and when you’ve been with us for five years, this increases to 29 days (assuming the role is full time). We provide access to a great pension scheme, based on your local authority career average earnings.

Closing date: 30 August 2022.

Interview date: 8 September 2022.