Principal Planning Officer

July 2, 2026

Job Category: Town Planning
Job Location: Central England
Job Type: Contract

Principal Planning Officer

A Local Authority in Central England is looking for an experienced Principal Planning Officer to join on an interim basis. This will be for a 6-month rolling contract.

About The Role

My client is looking to recruit a candidate who will handle a variety of major developments across the District, including the possibility of working on Development Consent Order applications and potentially to help us with implementing improvements to the planning service. The candidate would also be suitable to pick up highly controversial, political and complex planning matters

This is a hybrid working role and will require office presence once every fortnight.

About The Candidate

The right candidate will need to be experienced with both urban and rural related development and ideally have a specialism of working on Development Consent Order applications (although we will consider candidates without that experience).

When

The client is looking to interview and proceed with the right candidate as soon as possible.

Interested?

If this role is of interest to you, please contact Lily on 0208 524 5226 or alternatively, send me an email of your up to date CV on lily.r@stonehouserg.com

If you are interested in Town Planning positions at other levels of seniority or you do not feel this role is for you but still would like to speak about other roles, please do make contact.

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