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Job details
Job reference: REQ0136
Date posted: 17/02/2025
Apply by: 23/03/2025
Location: Ebley Mill - Stroud
Salary: £49,764 per annum
Package:
* Excellent pension scheme
* Flexi Working Scheme
* Hybrid working approach
* Employee Wellbeing Offer
For more information please see the benefits section on our website.
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Permanent
Job category/type: Planning Strategy
Stroud district is a vibrant and progressive area. We have an active development and regeneration sector where we are looking to achieve sustainable development and address climate impacts, becoming a carbon neutral district by 2030.
We have a rich industrial history with cotton mills set within the Stroud Valleys. However, our District is living, modern and innovative, offering a diverse physical, historic and natural environment with active Cotswold villages within the Cotswolds AONB, the Severn Vale, and urban areas including the southern parts of Gloucester and market towns like Nailsworth, Minchinhampton, and Wotton under Edge.
We are looking for a highly motivated Principal Planner to positively shape this growth and protect the valued historic and natural environment of the local area, which is central to its distinctive character.
This opportunity is within our majors and commercial team, a friendly and busy team dealing with a wide range of interesting projects. With the diverse nature of the district, this includes large housing schemes, interesting regeneration and historic mill sites, town centre projects, renewable energy, and other commercial schemes. The work can be challenging, but we aim to be proactive and positive. With a shared team approach, we provide a supportive environment to allow creative solutions and positive results.
About you
As Principal Planning Officer, you will have a caseload of planning applications, pre-application enquiries, planning appeals, and other related activities. These will be more complex in nature and will require effective management to meet both performance and quality targets. The role also supervises other members of the majors team and includes engagement with Cllrs and customers, as well as presenting applications at committee.
If you would like an informal discussion or would like to come and meet the team, please contact John Chaplin, Majors and Environment Team Manager at 01453 766321 or john.chaplin@stroud.gov.uk.
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In exchange for your expertise, experience, and enthusiasm, we provide a range of staff benefits. Please click here for more information.
It is important that our staff reflect the diversity of our community, and we therefore welcome and encourage applications from people of all genders and sexual orientations, those from Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic backgrounds, and people with disabilities.
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of vulnerable adults, young people, and children. Safer recruitment practices are applied to all job vacancies.
Stroud District has an energy unlike any other place. It’s green and dynamic, climate-conscious and motivated, creative and collaborative, rural and urban, and unapologetically ambitious. To find out more about what makes our place, our people, and our businesses so special, please follow the link to our dedicated website:
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