The role

The Strategic Applications Team manages the largest planning applications in the borough, including large regeneration schemes in Canada Water, the Aylesbury Estate and Peckham. These projects involve many policy areas, often require GLA referral and may include environmental statements.

You will manage your own caseload of complex applications and pre-application inquiries, including large residential and commercial schemes in a dynamic and exciting part of London. You will work with applicants, communities and consultees to resolve issues, and ensure developments deliver economic and social benefits to our residents while ensuring they meet the highest level of environmental standards.

Our commitment to you is to invest in your learning and development, from our regular in-house training seminars to more formal learning in the form of management qualifications and external training, for you to develop your career.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Delivering complex and specialised planning services including development management, the preparation of planning policy, and delivery of planning related projects in accordance with recognised performance standards and delivery plans
   
• Contributing to decisions and recommendations regarding development management, planning policy, planning services and planning projects and activities that will have lasting effects on the development of the borough and impacts on the local environment, economy and community
   
• The post holder will carry out research, evaluation and work on cases and projects with the potential to impact on the development value of land in the borough, the amount of development that can take place, the delivery of council priorities such as affordable housing and have major environmental impacts
   
• Providing advice on the statutory planning process reaching high standards of clarity and accuracy and to ensure that the impacts of planning and transport policy

About Southwark:

We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities.  Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

Additional details

About You:

You may be an experienced planner looking for a fresh challenge or to develop your career with large, complex applications. You will need to be organised and able to take part in complex negotiations to deliver the right scheme and coordinate post-discussion consents so that development takes place in a timely manner.

Additional Information:

• 36 hours Monday – Friday, Full time
• This is a permanent position
• DBS check is required for this role
• For questions about the role please contact dipesh.patel@southwark.gov.uk

This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check at Basic level.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Recruitment timetable

Advert Closing date: 9 September 2024

Interview date: week commencing 16 September

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

•  Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
•  Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
•  If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at this level level in the Council.

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