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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced, ambitious, and creative planning professional passionate about shaping places and driving positive change through planning policy. This role will lead the Council's Policy for Place function, taking a strategic role in the preparation, implementation, monitoring, and review of the borough's Local Plan and wider planning policy framework. You will shape supplementary planning guidance, design codes, masterplans, planning briefs, and neighbourhood planning initiatives to support high-quality homes, jobs, public spaces, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Lead the preparation, implementation, monitoring, and review of Waltham Forest's Local Plan and wider planning policy framework, ensuring compliance with national, regional, and local planning requirements.
Lead the development of supplementary planning documents, design codes, masterplans, planning briefs, neighbourhood plans, and other place-based planning frameworks that support sustainable and inclusive growth across the borough.
Provide strategic planning policy leadership on key priorities including climate resilience, biodiversity recovery, active travel, healthy placemaking, heritage conservation, and sustainable development.
Commission and manage evidence base studies, technical assessments, and specialist consultancy projects, ensuring a robust evidence base for policy development and delivery.
Monitor the effectiveness of planning policies and statutory strategies, ensuring planning documents remain up-to-date and respond to emerging legislation, opportunities, and challenges.
Provide expert planning policy advice and guidance to senior officers, elected members, developers, communities, and external stakeholders on a wide range of planning and regeneration matters.
Lead public consultation, engagement, and statutory plan-making processes, ensuring meaningful involvement of residents, partners, and stakeholders in shaping the borough's future.
Build and maintain effective partnerships with regional bodies, neighbouring authorities, community organisations, and other stakeholders to support the successful delivery of planning policy objectives.
Contribute specialist expertise to cross-disciplinary projects across the Place and Design Team, helping to deliver high-quality, sustainable, and inclusive placemaking outcomes.
Support, mentor, and develop colleagues within the service, promoting collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

RTPI recognised degree level qualification in Town Planning or equivalent.
Eligibility or membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Advanced user of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel and other relevant software enabling the review and maintenance of the Local Plan process.
Experienced user of GIS Software such as StatMap and QGIS.
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks.
Satisfactory declaration of interest.
Fluent English speaking ability for public-facing roles.
Must already hold a form of UK work authorisation that does not require sponsorship.

Skills

Planning policy
Placemaking
Plan-making process
Collaborative working
Clear communication of complex ideas
Relationship building
Political environment experience
Complex project management
Policy solutions for contemporary challenges (climate change, biodiversity recovery, sustainable growth)
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
GIS Software (StatMap, QGIS)

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time
Permanent

Experience Level

Experienced

Education Level

RTPI recognised degree level qualification in Town Planning or equivalent
Eligibility or membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute

Salary/Compensations

£57,402 – £62,766

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements considered
Benefits of working for the Council available at https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us

About the Company

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities.
Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers, committed to creating a healthy, fair, and inclusive workplace.
The Place and Design Team works to ensure inclusive growth, creating a fairer borough and delivering needed homes and jobs.
We are committed to engaging the borough’s diverse communities at all stages of the development cycle.
The team works to ensure all new development is of exemplar quality and supported by the right infrastructure, built in the right places.
We work closely with stakeholders to ensure development contributes to wider ambitions, enhancing biodiversity, mitigating flood risk, and tackling the Climate Emergency.
We work within an inclusive structure that rejects silos, embraces sharing and learning, and works flexibly and collaboratively.
We have adopted a matrix working approach that assembles the right teams for the right projects, building resilience and skills.
We have built a reputation as an innovative, positive, proactive team that delivers excellent results with work produced in-house.
Recent achievements include adopting our Local Plan, having our Site Allocations Plan pass examination, contributing to award-winning buildings and public spaces, developing the Waltham Forest Design Awards, producing high-quality guidance, and rejuvenating our Local Heritage List.

Equal Opportunity

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both service delivery and employment of its staff.
The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population.
We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace.
The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: Promoting equality of opportunity, Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage, Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels, Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.
Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process.
The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments.