Planning Enforcement Officer
- Employer
- Malvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils
- Location
- Pershore
- Salary
- £19,269 - £21,674.40 (FTE £32,115 - £36,124)
- Closing date
- 26 Jan 2025
- Reference
- WMHDC/TP/1763/212
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- Sector
- Local Councils
- Job Type
- Planning
- Contract Type
- Part time permanent
- Working Pattern
- Part Time
- Hours
- Part-Time
Job Details
Planning Enforcement Officer
22.2 hours per week, Permanent contract
£19,269.00 - £21,674.40 (FTE £32,115 - £36,124) per annum pro rata
We are looking for a Planning Enforcement Officer to join our proactive and customer focused development management service to handle a variety of planning enforcement investigations.
Working within a professional and supportive team, the role involves investigating alleged breaches of planning control ensuring compliance with planning conditions and section 106 legal agreements, and ensuring that developers deliver what they promise.
You will maintain records on developments where breaches of planning control have occurred, monitoring these sites and negotiating with developers and/or landowners to ensure future compliance. You will prepare cases where formal enforcement action is to be taken (in consultation with the Council’s legal advisors) where breaches of planning control cannot otherwise be resolved.
You will also provide high quality planning advice to applicants, members of the public, parish and town councils and elected members of the district council. Great communication skills and an ability to engage with a range of stakeholders is therefore essential along with a commitment to delivering an outstanding service to all our customers.
About you
The successful candidate will:
- Have planning or other relevant investigatory experience
- Relevant planning enforcement or other similar experience of a regulatory nature
- Ideally have an up-to-date knowledge of current planning enforcement legislation with regard to establishing whether development is being carried out without the necessary planning permission, where planning conditions are being breached and/or whether planning obligations are not being complied with
- Experience of dealing with people in sensitive and, at times, confrontational situations
- Good IT skills
- Good oral and written communication
The role requires travel across our districts to undertake site visits. Candidates must therefore hold a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.
What we can offer
Our staff are at the heart of what we do, and as a result we are always looking to recruit, develop and retain the very best talent we can find. So, as well as a rewarding career, we offer a range of attractive benefits, such as:
- Excellent pension scheme with employer contributions
- Generous annual leave entitlement with options to purchase additional annual leave
- Committed training programme and development opportunities
- Onsite nursery with 20% staff discount (if Pershore based)
- Discounted Gym and swim membership
- Health and Wellbeing support and a Free Employee Assistance scheme including access to counselling services
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee Discounts with a range of companies including EE and the Kaarp discount scheme.
We are an employer that values face to face communication, collaboration and connection, therefore all our roles have an office-based requirement with some agile working as part of the role.
The role is required to be based at either the Civic Centre, Pershore or the Council House, Malvern. If you have a preference in your base location, please detail this in your application to be considered (please note, whilst we will try our best to accommodate this, it will be decided upon service requirement).
To discuss the post or for further information, please call Paul Clements, Planning Enforcement Team Leader, on 01684 862461.
Closing date: Sunday 26 January 2025
Interview date: Thursday 6 February 2025
Please note if we experience a high intake of applications, we may close the role and interview for the position sooner than advertised.
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Job Description
Employee Benefits
Company
Working for us
Malvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils are rewarding places to work, with high levels of resident satisfaction and motivated staff who enjoy working for us. Located in south Worcestershire, both districts boast beautiful natural environments, a rich heritage and plenty to do and see. The districts are ranked the top two best rural places to live in the West Midlands and are amongst the top 30 in the country.
We pride ourselves on being progressive organisations spending time, energy and investment on what we know matters to our residents and communities – things like supporting our town centres and rural communities, creating jobs, keeping the streets clean, reducing our carbon footprint, helping people feel safe and preventing homelessness.
We are an employer that values face to face Communication, Collaboration and Connection, therefore all our roles have an office based requirement with some agile working as part of the role.
Working with you
Our staff are at the heart of what we do, and as a result we are always looking to recruit and develop the very best talent we can find. That's why, as well as providing a satisfying job, we offer a range of attractive benefits, generous holiday entitlements, a pension scheme, plenty of opportunities for personal development, and discounted gym membership.
We value skills and an ability to do a great job over identifying personal information and that’s why we anonymise all our recruitment until we reach interview stage. What you can offer us and how you will uphold our values and behaviours is really important to us and that’s what we look for during our recruitment process.
Our staff are our driving force, and it’s important our workforce reflects the communities we serve. More than 50% of our Senior Management Team is female, as is the majority of our Heads of Service.
We are a member of the Disability Confident Scheme and support the movement of change, to think differently about disability and apply this to how we recruit, retain and develop disabled people.
We value all our staff and are committed to eliminating unlawful discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity, and fostering good relations between people from a diverse range of backgrounds.
Want to know more?
The two councils have a shared Chief Executive and a joint senior management team. Whilst they retain their own political structures and distinct identities, the joint management structure allows us to maximise the opportunity to deliver a wide range of good value services to our customers and communities, and operate and develop shared services, collaborative working and partnership arrangements with each other, with other councils and with key stakeholders
Whichever council you work for, you can be sure it will be an enjoyable place to work, you will feel valued and appreciated and have an opportunity to develop your career in line with your potential and expectations. Please click for more information on or Malvern Hills District Council or Wychavon District Council
- Website
- http://www.wychavon.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 01386 565515
- Location
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Wychavon District Council
Civic Centre
Queen Elizabeth Drive
Pershore
Worcestershire
WR10 1PT
United Kingdom
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