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Senior Planning Officer – 12732

Salary: £29.46 per hour (Inside IR35)

Location: Lancashire – Hybrid role.

Contracting Authority: Government Client
Contract Length: 30/06/2025 TBC
Clearance: DBS

Qualifications
- Degree (or be working towards) in town and country planning, geography or related environmental discipline.

Experience
- At least three years' experience of town and country planning either in development management or planning policy context.
- Experience of minerals and waste development management

Essential knowledge, skills & abilities
- Knowledge of minerals and waste industries and associated environmental issues
- Excellent report writing skills and good attention to detail
- Ability to analyse environmental reports and to devise solutions to environmental issues
- Ability to work under pressure and flexibility to manage own workload to meet strict timescales
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of national policy and guidance relevant to planning and specifically to minerals and waste development
- Knowledge of planning enforcement procedures and practices
- Understanding of the local plan preparation process
- Ability to cope with the physical demands of visiting mineral extraction and waste management site

Our dedicated team would be pleased to discuss in more detail how we may be able to help