Planning Enforcement Officer, Grade 11 (£41,793 - £43,815pa)

About Croydon

As one of London’s largest and most diverse boroughs, Croydon is a fantastic place to live, work and spend time, with all the benefits of close proximity to the rest of London and the southeast.

Over the past decade we have seen huge investment, regeneration, and growth in our Borough. Croydon remains an attractive and important part of London for ongoing growth and investment – growth from which we want to see all our communities’ benefit.

However, we must keep up to date and continually adapt and change to focus on the needs our residents are facing today, while making sure we are a financially sustainable council by 2024. This brings opportunities for those who want to work in a fast-moving environment, focused on improvement and delivering better services. Croydon is an exciting place to work.

We have a great planning management team, who lead, inspire, and believe in Croydon. If you want a challenge with great job satisfaction, there is no better opportunity than Croydon.

Click here to hear what our staff say about why they love working at Croydon.

Ross - https://youtu.be/Y1XuA5jt5zk

Jamar - https://youtu.be/ymicZUQsc6E

Grace - https://youtu.be/rysO2bACU54

Nicola - https://youtu.be/80m5go_b1lk

Chris - https://youtu.be/IHg9YF5v-rI

Watch “Live, Work, Study, Build” here: Live, Work, Study, Build - Develop Croydon - YouTube

If you would like to discuss further these roles and how you could fit into the team, please contact.

John Penn Team Leader Enforcement and Trees john.penn@croydon.gov.uk

Nicola Townsend Head of Development Management nicola.townsend@croydon.gov.uk

About The Role 

As a result of the ambitions for the Borough we are looking to enhance service delivery for our customers and to focus specifically on the realisation of sustainable growth, firmly embedded in high standards of design and the maximisation of social, economic and environmental benefits.

However, sustainable development can only be delivered alongside a proactive and robust planning enforcement regime, and you will be part of a team who are responsible for investigating and resolving alleged breaches of planning control through negotiation and/or the service of planning enforcement notices with follow up of legal proceedings as appropriate.

You will work in a vibrant and busy Development Management Service and the successful candidate will have to be ambitious, passionate about planning, enthusiastic, motivated and demonstrate a general understanding of town planning legislation, have good written and verbal communication skills and to able to work under pressure and to strict deadlines.

We welcome applications from those just staring in their career or those wishing to further their career and extend their experience. If you are interested in joining us, we would be pleased to hear from you.

We run regular training and development sessions on a wide range of planning and development matters, bringing in external speakers as well as in house experts and we encourage staff to take part in the organisation and topic selection. Each and every one of our staff play a vital role in delivering a planning service, if you enjoy making a difference, being part of a team and love planning, we would like to hear from you.

Working for Croydon

• Up to 32 Days annual leave (depending on length of service) plus Bank Holidays
• Pension – Local Government Pension Scheme
• Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements available
• Career development/learning/training opportunities
• We also promote professional membership of the RTPI and cover the associated costs.
• Employee Assistance Programme – Providing advice and Counselling.
• Career development/learning/training/apprenticeship opportunities