Planning Enforcement Officer

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Malvern; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization is seeking a Planning Enforcement Officer to manage planning enforcement investigations. The role involves ensuring compliance with planning conditions, providing advice, and negotiating with stakeholders. The successful candidate will have relevant experience and excellent communication skills. Attractive benefits and a supportive team environment are offered.

Benefits

Excellent pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Committed training programme

Onsite nursery

Discounted Gym membership

Health and Wellbeing support

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in planning or relevant investigatory roles.
• Knowledge of current planning enforcement legislation.

Responsibilities

• Investigate breaches of planning control and ensure compliance.
• Prepare cases for formal enforcement action when necessary.

Skills

Communication

IT Skills

Investigatory Experience

Job description

Planning Enforcement Officer

37 hours per week

Permanent contract

£32,115 - £36,124 per annum

We are looking for a Planning Enforcement Officer to join our proactive and customer focussed 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 in areas where access to public transport is limited. 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 8 June 2025

Interview date: Thursday 19 June 2025

Please note if we experience a high intake of applications, we may close the role and interview for the position sooner than advertised.

Attached documents
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Job Description - Planning Enforcement Officer