Interim Principal Highways Development Coordinator
Location: Gloucestershire
Pay Rate: Up to £47.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience
Working Arrangement: Hybrid working
Key Requirements:
1. Degree in Civil Engineering, or relevant degree with compensatory knowledge, abilities and skills.
2. Substantial experience in a public or private organisation dealing with Highways development management issues.
3. Substantial experience in Highways Planning and Development legislation.
4. Experience of public presentation at planning committees and planning hearings.
5. Experience of negotiating complex legal agreements.
6. Experience of engineering design standards.
7. Experience of using transport modelling applications.
8. Experience of preparing reports for technical appraisal and public review.
9. Full UK driving license.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Engage in pre-application discussions with Planning Officers, developers, consultants, and District Councils as appropriate.
2. Provide HDM advice on the need for, and scope of, Transportation Assessments, Transportation Statements and Travel Plans, and to undertake an assessment of these documents when submitted in support of planning applications.
3. Provide appropriate recommendations on highways and transport issues within agreed timelines to District planning authorities in response to consultation on planning applications including mitigation and developer contributions.
4. Represent the Highways Authority at County and District Planning Committee meetings, and other stakeholder meetings, and site visits, to provide highways and transport advice in relation to planning applications and Local Plan spatial growth options.
5. Negotiate Section 106 financial contributions to strategic infrastructure that supports the objectives of the Local Transport Plan.
6. Instruct the Major Projects team concerning the design and delivery of Section 106 funded schemes.
7. Instruct Legal officers to prepare and enter into legal agreements with 3rd party developers.
8. Build and maintain a close working relationship with Senior Officers within the County Council and district councils and to forge effective working relations with developers and other stakeholders in the county to facilitate economic sustainable development.
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