About Us At Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
About The Role
As part of Hounslow Council’s efforts to help nurture the public planners of the future, we are offering a fantastic opportunity to join our Planning and Buildings division as a Town Planning Apprentice.
This is an exciting time to join Hounslow’s Planning and Buildings Directorate, with work on a new Local Plan at an advanced stage that will help provide the framework for development and growth in the Borough for the next 15 years; new design guidance and design codes in place that will ensure high quality sustainable development; pioneering work on the use of technology to enhance how we engage people in planning and significant developments coming through the planning process for thousands of new homes and jobs.
The successful candidate will participate in Hounslow’s Apprenticeship Programme working in a supported learning environment where they will have the opportunity to develop professional skills, knowledge, behaviours and work experience in planning. The successful candidates will also engage with the wider functions of the Planning and Buildings Directorate including building control, design and conservation.
The Town Planning Apprentices will study for an RTPI Chartered Town Planner qualification with the Bartlett School of Planning at UCL.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
You’ll be working in one of the planning teams at Hounslow Council. The planning teams at Hounslow Council are responsible for setting the long term spatial planning policy framework for Hounslow and for guiding individual development proposals through the Development Management process.
You’ll find a welcoming and supportive team and a dynamic work environment.
* You will undertake work delivering town planning services including: development management; spatial planning (including planning policy, data and monitoring); infrastructure planning (including CIL and S106 collection and allocation), planning enforcement and other planning projects.
* You will contribute to decisions and recommendations relating to development management, spatial planning, infrastructure planning, planning enforcement and other planning projects.
* You will provide clear and accurate basic advice on the statutory planning process.
* You will proactively seek opportunities to learn about different aspects of planning as part of your apprenticeship.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
* You will be prepared to work in different teams within the Planning and Buildings Directorate in order to develop a broad experience of the different aspects of town planning.
* You will be interested in the work of local government and how a political organisation works.
* You will be a good communicator; verbally, in written form and through use of graphics, images, diagrams and maps.
* You will be interested in Hounslow as a place, prepared to undertake site visits and engage with a broad range of stakeholders including members of the public, elected representatives, developers and their agents.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: Vincent.Lacovara@hounslow.gov.uk
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 28th April 2025.
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