Planning Officer

£31,122 - £32,112 with market factor supplement of up to £3,444 to give a total maximum salary of £35,556

Market Factor Supplement are reviewed frequently.

2 year Fixed Term or Secondment

Enfield is a dynamic and progressive London Borough with excellent links to the city and central areas as well as Hertfordshire and Essex. With the focus for London’s future growth on outer London and recognising its location along the strategically important London - Stansted corridor, there are a range of significant development opportunities. We want your skills and vision to help realise their potential.

Headlining our ambitious growth agenda is the Borough’s largest residential led mixed use development at Meridian Water where our aspiration is to deliver upwards of 10000 new homes and 6000 jobs. Alongside new public open spaces, shops, community facilities and a new railway station, this is a key opportunity to shape and deliver a landmark residential scheme within London.

Our ambitions don’t end there as we are already in early discussions on several major regeneration schemes across the Borough including proposals for Enfield Town, Brimsdown, Edmonton and Southgate to deliver new high-quality mixed use residential led development which meets the modern housing and employment needs of our residents

We need you to help us achieve this vision. Working alongside our new Place and Design Review Panel, this is an opportunity for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to gain exceptional experience and make a real difference to the future lives of our residents.

To help you help us, we can offer opportunities for personal development including flexible working or compressed hours, home working opportunities, generous annual leave, training opportunities and a friendly working environment.

Planning Officer

Working as part of an area team, this is an exciting opportunity at the heart of our area planning teams, focused on delivering a range of development schemes, planning performance and excellent customer experience. These are key roles and offer an opportunity to development your planning knowledge and experience in a busy planning environment. You will deal with the full range of planning applications, including industrial, retail, business, residential, and heritage reflecting the diverse composition and varied development opportunities the Borough is dealing with. A good understanding of development management including permitted development and associated planning legislation will be importance, but further training opportunities will be available to enhance your skills and experience

You will have excellent customer focus and be able to demonstrate confidence in dealing with applicants and their agents, Councillors and residents.

Why it's great to work for Enfield Council

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 31 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click here to find out more.

Additional information

To apply please click on the apply link below

This role requires you to upload 2 documents – in the “Document upload” section of the online application form.

1. A supporting statement addressing how you meet the requirements of the job description and person specification.
2. Your CV

Your supporting statement should be around 2 pages in A4 format

Please note if your supporting statement is longer than 2 pages your application may not be considered or reviewed

Closing at 23:59 on Wednesday 13th April 2022

Interviews: TBC

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

An external candidate, including Enfield Council agency workers, would be appointed on a fixed term contract, whilst internal candidates who are Council employees, would normally be expected to take up the post on a secondment basis.

To be eligible to apply for a secondment, Enfield Council employees must have completed probation and must have discussed/agreed the proposed secondment with their line manager. Fixed term contracts may be considered where secondment is not possible.

Secondments are the temporary loan of an employee from one part of the organisation to another part of the organisation and rely on the secondee to return to their substantive position on completion of the secondment.

If you would like to know more about any of these roles, please contact for an informal discussion:

Gideon Whittingham, Planning Decisions Manager on 0208 1321 623 or gideon.whittingham@enfield.gov.uk

David Gittens, Planning Decisions Manager (North Team) on 020 8132 0890 or david.gittens@enfield.gov.uk

If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Oley Taal Gaye, Recruitment and Onboarding Advisor on 020 8 132 1043 or oley.taal-gaye@enfield.gov.uk