Permanent
PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL PLANNER – SPATIAL PLANNING
PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL PLANNER – SPATIAL PLANNING
Stratford, London E20
£46,000 - £56,000 pa with substantial benefits
Unique personal and breath-taking professional benefits
There are Planning roles; and then there are TfL City Planning roles.
Here, you’ll enjoy a raft of benefits that substantially add to your basic salary, including a final salary pension, free TfL travel, 75% off a National Rail season ticket and private healthcare options along with flexible working for you.
Plus, there’s the awe-inspiring challenge of delivering the Mayor’s new ambitious Transport Strategy whilst keeping one of the world’s most complex and dynamic cities moving, growing and excelling.
Your work will help to define a global city
London is the best big city on Earth. With our Spatial Planning team working at the heart of major planning and investment decisions, you will play a part in a team responsible for helping ensure it stays that way. We are looking for people with big ideas and a real passion for planning to help shape the future of the capital.
An exciting time of change
In this role you will have the opportunity to lead TfL’s input to planning frameworks, policy documents, masterplans and large scale planning applications, working closely with key partners including the GLA, boroughs, developers and their consultants. In particular, you will be responsible for evaluating the technical transport aspects of planning applications, ensuring that industry best practice is being followed and promoting innovative approaches.
A chance to test your talent
You will be advising others in TfL on key issues including transport assessments, transport modelling, highway design and road safety. You will need strong negotiating skills and be able to build positive relationships with key partners. You will also have the opportunity to shape development sites throughout the planning process, encouraging good growth and promoting Healthy Streets.
If you can bring excellent communication skills and a flair for coming up with effective solutions to complex transport problems, you’re definitely someone we’d like to talk to.
What your experience needs to have involved
You will need to have had experience in major planning applications and technical assessments along with having negotiated section 106 and/or section 278 agreements. You will have influenced and advised decision makers at all levels as well as having handled complex projects.
To apply please click here quoting reference 26890.
Closing date: Wednesday 20 June 2018 at 23:59.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.