Planning Enforcement and Compliance Manager
Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Salary: £60,468 - £73,311
Contract Type: Full-time Permanent
Working hours per week: 36
Application Deadline: Fri 09/08/2024
Proposed Interview Date(s): w/c 19/08/2024
Reference:1311
About Us:
Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London's Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.
About the role:
We have recently brought the Planning Enforcement Service back into the Planning Team. This is a great opportunity to lead a new team and shape its future direction and successes.
The re-energized Planning Enforcement Team sits within Development Management and working with DM colleagues and the wider Regeneration, Planning and Delivery Directorate you will have the opportunity to create an end-to-end planning enforcement service, including developing a compliance function.
You will lead the Enforcement Team, with overall responsibility for managing all the complaints that are received, taking appropriate action, including serving enforcement notices, dealing with enforcement appeals and undertaking prosecutions,
You will be the led contact for enforcement matters, advising Corporate and Strategic Directors, Lead Members and Councillors. You will need to work collaboratively with colleagues across the Council to secure the most effective outcome.
You will also be part of a Management Team that is constantly looking to improve service delivery and performance.
We are a diverse, friendly and welcoming team based in our historic refurbished town hall, that is high performing, forward thinking and progressive.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Planning Enforcement Team, providing appropriate supervision, training and career development opportunities.
- Manage investigation of alleged breaches of planning control; taking appropriate action, including serving enforcement notices, undertaking prosecutions and defending the Council's actions at appeal.
- Deal with complex, high-profile, politically sensitive casework, providing professional advice to senior leaders on appropriate resolution.
- Developing a planning compliance function; working collaboratively with other teams to deliver this.
- Delivering a customer focused service that is efficient and effective.
Qualifications and Requirements:
Town Planning or related degree.
Eligibility for membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute, or other relevant professional body.
Substantial experience of planning enforcement case work with proven track record of successful resolution.
Specialist knowledge of planning legislation and planning enforcement case law.
Terms and conditions:
The below terms and conditions apply to this role:
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
Satisfactory declaration of interest;
This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.
As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the 'Apply' button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the ~@above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.
For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Justin Carr Assistant Director Development Management & Building Control at justin.carr@walthamforest.gov.uk
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.
The Council's preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.
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