Senior Development Planning Officer

Senior / Planning Development Officer Rate: £19.81 per hour PAYE Location: Remote with 1 day in the Solihull office per week if required Contract: 4 - 6 Months Working hours: 37 per week

Overview:
Opus People Solutions are recruiting on behalf of Solihull Borough Council for a Planning Officer with experience of monitoring and managing Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and Section 106 agreements and process.

Job Purpose:
The Planning Officer will support the delivery of Solihull Borough Council's preparation, production and review of documents associated with the planning policy/housing strategy formulation for the Borough, including the tasks associated with producing such documents.Responsibilities:

• To lead and/or support policy development on one or more specialist areas of planning policy/housing strategy. Such areas may include planning for new homes; affordable housing and delivery; employment; retail; sustainability appraisals; gypsy & traveller accommodation; and infrastructure delivery (including S106/CIL).
• To develop and/or maintaining one or more of the Council's monitoring systems in relation to planning & development.
• To lead on commissioning evidence base studies (or similar) to be undertaken by external consultants; including scoping, procuring and ...