Carrington West are assisting their local authority client based in Essex in the search for a Planning Officer to join their Development Management team on an initial 9 month contract basis. This post involves managing a caseload of Householder and Minor applications (e.g. 5 dwellings, prior approvals, small to medium scale commercial development, householder applications and pre-application enquiries). Key Accountabilities: To contribute towards the delivery a high quality, customer focused Planning and Implementation department with high standards of advice and support, resolving cases of varying complexities in Development Management. Ensure compliance with statutory regulations, legislation, professional codes of practice and adherence to Council policy. Deliver projects, interventions and initiatives and develop policies in line with corporate and business plans. To deal effectively and efficiently with general enquiries, pre-applications, planning applications and planning appeals ensuring cases are managed and completed at the appropriate level of skillset. Ensure and develop appropriate levels of quality and specialist knowledge with other Planning and Implementation colleagues. Our ideal candidate should have 2 + years'' experience of dealing with planning applications and is confident with pick up an existing workload with ease. You should have excellent report writing skills and must be confident and professional when dealing with Members, the public and other ..... full job details .....