Senior Planning Officer – Maldon District Council
CompanyEssex County Council
Location
Maldon, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At6/26/2026
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Description
About The Role
Senior Planning Officer - Maldon District Council
Maldon District Council
Temporary, Full Time
£45.00 ph (umbrella)
Location: Maldon
Closing Date: 1st July 2026
Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Maldon District Council to recruit a Senior Planning Officer on a three-month temporary basis. Please note that this role requires 2 days a week site attendance.
Key Accountabilities
To contribute towards the delivery a high quality, customer focused Planning & 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 & Implementation colleagues.
Senior Planning Officer - Maldon District Council
Maldon District Council
Temporary, Full Time
£45.00 ph (umbrella)
Location: Maldon
Closing Date: 1st July 2026
Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Maldon District Council to recruit a Senior Planning Officer on a three-month temporary basis. Please note that this role requires 2 days a week site attendance.
Key Accountabilities
To contribute towards the delivery a high quality, customer focused Planning & 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 & Implementation colleagues.
- Deliver customer-focused specialist advice and services in Development Management, keeping up to date with current and emerging legislation, best practice and policy to ensure continuous development and improvement in services.
- Manage complex and/or contentious planning applications, processes and compliance, regulations and legislation, acting as the single point of contact for customers on those cases and attending appeals hearings and public inquiries as appropriate.
- Support, guide and advise Graduate Planners and Technical Support colleagues, as necessary.
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, as well as Members and managing key relationships with partners including Essex County Council and Local Councils and other stakeholders
- Proven ability to give sound advice and guidance on a broad range of planning cases, topics or issues
- Experience of Town Planning applications within a broad range of complexity and contentiousness, with some guidance and support of more experienced staff, occasionally referring to Principals, Team Manager and/or Head of Service for work outside previous experience
- Ability to enforce legislation where a breach of planning control is suspected
Maldon District Council is an equal opportunities employer and therefore all staff are expected to comply with our equality policies and help create a work environment in which everyone is treated with dignity, respect, courtesy and fairness. You are also expected to fully comply with health and safety policies and procedures in force to help maintain and develop a safe working environment. In pursuing a practice of continuous improvement and seeking to obtain best value in all aspects of the service, staff will be expected to assist in other such duties as may be allocated for the benefit of the organisation and their own personal development. Staff will be expected to assist if the council has to deal with the results of a civil emergency.
What You Should Do Next
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website.
Please note that Maldon District Council has determined that the off-payroll working rules will apply to this assignment and where a worker elects to provide their services through an intermediary (such as a personal services company) then income tax and primary national insurance contributions will be deducted at source from any payments made to the intermediary.
Please note that Maldon District Council has determined that the off-payroll working rules will apply to this assignment and where a worker elects to provide their services through an intermediary (such as a personal services company) then income tax and primary national insurance contributions will be deducted at source from any payments made to the intermediary.