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Responsible for leading the Council's newly formed Housing Delivery and Growth Team in a hybrid management and case officer role. Management responsibilities include line management of team members; co-ordination of the Council's response to all strategic development schemes within the District and across Development Management as a whole; lead Officer at Planning Committee on a regular basis; delegated authority for report sign off where appropriate; ensuring continued integration of the HDGT Team within the wider Development Management Team; mentoring of Planners and Senior Planners and representation of both HDGT and Development Management across BDC departments and externally. Also responsible for a limited personal caseload of strategic scale applications.

Braintree, Essex

Case Officer for strategic scale residential; commercial and mixed use schemes including major urban extensions of up to 1,000 units and substantial commercial developments. Led the Council's new approach to securing the highest quality development on strategic sites incorporating Design Workshops; Design Codes and multi-disciplinary input through extensive and well co-ordinated pre-application and Planning Performance Agreement processes. Represented the Council at appeal including hearings and a Public Inquiry. Extensive experience of presenting major development schemes at Planning Committee. Mentoring of junior staff members, delegated authority to sign off officer reports where appropriate. Responsible for implementing the Council's Development Management response to Habitat Regulations sites including training all Development Management Officers in this process.

Case officer for major and complex planning applications. Pre-application advice, co-ordination of key stakeholders and consultees, S106 negotiations, planning committee.

Provided expert planning advice to a range of Clients with a focus on major development schemes in both the residential and commercial sectors. My role included the compilation and submission of planning applications, making Local Plan representations, leading multi-disciplinary consultant teams through the pre-application and planning application process and advising Clients on planning strategies and approaches.

Stevenage

Determining a wide variety of planning applications from householder up to major residential and commercial schemesPlanning enforcement work including serving Enforcement Notices, extensive negotiations with complainants and those who had breached planning legislationDuty planning officer and wide range of experience in giving agents and members of the public pre-application advicePresenting at planning committee, planning appeals, public inquiry

Watford

Intervention Officer working in emergency response

Infantry soldier in the RAF Reserves including a tour of duty in Helmand Province, Afghanistan embedded within an Army Infantry platoon as a rifleman.

Master'S Degree, Spatial Planning, Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, Archaeology, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Southampton University Officer Training Corps