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Senior Planning Enforcement Officer

Employer
Tandridge District Council
Location
Oxted, Surrey
Salary
£35,749 - £40,604
Closing date
19 Sep 2022

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Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Discipline
Enforcement, Planning
Function
Officer, Planner
Sector
Local Authority

Job Details

Are you a highly skilled, enthusiastic planning professional looking for a new challenge? Or perhaps you want to take the next step in your career?

We’ve got a great opportunity for two planning professionals to play a key role in our Planning Enforcement team, in roles which are:

  • Interesting and extremely rewarding.
  • Perfectly suited for those who like to work on their own initiative, managing their own varied and interesting caseload, with no two days the same.
  • Made for those who thrive on interesting planning challenges.
  • Designed to help develop your skills and experience and progress your career.
  • Ideal for people who like to work flexibly, with a lively, dynamic, friendly and supportive team of planning professionals.
  • Perfect for creative, enthusiastic and dynamic people.

These are permanent, full-time posts and appointment will be at salary grade M2 (up to £40,604).

About the roles

It’s a great time to be joining our planning team. We’re transforming our planning service, to tackle the unique and interesting planning challenges we face in our district. The successful applicants will play a key role in this transformation, working alongside our team of planning professionals, helping deliver planning enforcement as a key aspect of our planning service.

You’ll be responsible for investigating alleged breaches of planning control, which will require negotiating with landowners, developers and others, preparing written reports and recommendations, to ensure complaints of unauthorised development are dealt with effectively and efficiently. 

You’ll also need to prepare proofs of evidence and legal notices, where needed and you’ll work closely with colleagues across the Council to bring your investigations to a successful outcome.

These roles will require out of hours working which will be separately remunerated or will attract time off in lieu.  

Who we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from you if you:

  • Have experience working in planning enforcement.
  • Are a well organised, highly motivated, flexible team player, with excellent communication skills, used to working in a fast-paced environment, managing competing priorities.
  • Have an eye for detail, with good report writing skills and the ability to understand and summarise complex information.
  • Can think innovatively and creatively, while exercising judgement in finding solutions.
  • Are passionate about delivering exceptional customer service, with a track record of building working relationships with key stakeholders and other colleagues.

If this sounds like your kind of challenge and you want to be part of our dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Cliff Thurlow on 01883 732906 or e-mail cthurlow@tandridge.gov.uk.

Company

TANDRIDGE DISTRICT COUNCIL

https://www.tandridge.gov.uk/

About Us

Tandridge is a local government district in east SurreyEngland. Its council is based in Oxted, although the largest settlement is Caterham; other notable settlements include WarlinghamGodstone and Lingfield. In mid-2019, the district had an estimated population of 88,129.

Tandridge borders the Borough of Reigate and Banstead to the west, the London Borough of Croydon to the north, the London Borough of Bromley to the north-east, the Sevenoaks District of Kent to the east, the Wealden District of East Sussex to the south-east, the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex to the south and the Borough of Crawley, also in West Sussex, to the south-west.

The district contains parts of the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Weald. It also contains several woodlands and some open heathland. Elevations above sea level range from 267 m (876 ft) at Botley Hill, in the North Downs near Oxted, to 42 m (138 ft) near Edenbridge.[2]

Company info
Telephone
01883 732893
Location
Council Offices
Station Rd East
Oxted
RH8 0BT
United Kingdom

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