What's involved with this role: Interim Planning Officer - Enforcement Reference no: Stoke on Trent 5260061 Pay Rate: £40.00 per hour PAYE 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 6 months City: STOKE ON TRENT The post requires the candidate to work in the office/on site at least two days per week (some weeks 3) - non negotiable Key responsibilities: Provide sound advice in respect of enforcement and planning law, policy and guidance, following standard procedures, best practice and corporate objectives. Critically appraise and recommend decisions on formal applications and enforcement complaints under planning and associated legislation (including those relating to listed buildings, conservation areas, tree preservation orders, advertisements, hazardous substances etc), together with any plans or supporting documentation supplied, to ensure compliance with appropriate legislation and approved policies. Support and where instructed, undertake the necessary enforcement actions, including but not limited to, the serving of Section 215 Notices, Planning Contravention Notices, Stop Notices, Enforcement Notices, Breach of Condition Notices, Injunctions and High Hedge Notices. Provide sound professional planning input to the design and delivery of sustainable site and area based regeneration priorities, all in accordance with the corporate business plan and development programmes. Deliver programmes of monitoring, research or investigation necessary to support planning and enforcement decisions. Be a professional witness in planning and enforcement matters including preparing and giving evidence to public or private local inquiries, hearings, examinations or the Courts. Validate planning applications. Write and present reports to committees and other meetings as required. Key requirements: Eligibility for chartered membership of the RTPI OR holds a recognised qualification in planning enforcement and can demonstrate substantial experience in dealing with planning enforcement related matters. Demonstrates a sound understanding of the relationship between development management, enforcement, planning policy and other material considerations. Demonstrates a sound understanding of the commercial and other motivations, opportunities and constraints affecting businesses generally, developers and their agents. Demonstrate experience in planning enforcement work, including responsibility for dealing with a substantial and varied planning enforcement caseload. Working with and negotiating with elected Members, developers, agents or council development management teams, customers, the public and other stakeholders. Assessing or preparing applications for planning permission. Demonstrates good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrates good customer service skills Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. "XR Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please
