Job Category: Social Care Qualified
Location: High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9SD
Elmbridge Borough Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Salary: £35.00
Work Arrangement: 2 days remote, 3 days in the office (dates to be discussed with line manager)
About the role
You will be investigating breaches of planning control. Working with applicants and developers to resolve breaches whilst keeping residents and Members up to date with investigations. You will work in a team, made up of a team leader, two compliance officers, as well as three tree officers.
Key Responsibilities
* Liaising with the Team Leader / Development Manager on complex and high‑profile investigations.
* Assisting in the logging of investigation requests.
* Fully researching the history of the subject site and assessing plans and other documentation for evidence of any breach of planning control.
* Visiting sites and surveying developments to record evidence of any breach of planning control and interviewing members of the public, owners and occupiers of the land as necessary.
* Negotiating compliance with planning controls as appropriate.
* Reaching out to Legal Services and other relevant Services as necessary.
* Preparing reports to recommend appropriate courses of action as appropriate.
* Issuing instructions, serving notices, preparing statements and collating plans, documents and statements that may be produced as evidence.
* Preparing and presenting evidence for written representation appeals, informal hearings, Public Inquiries and Court hearings as appropriate.
* Responding to enquiries and correspondence from Members, other officers, members of the public and other interested parties.
* Working with the Team Leader / Development Manager and other appropriate Officers to deliver selected proactive enforcement projects.
* Collaborating with the Team Leader / Development Manager and other appropriate Officers, organisations or individuals to increase and improve public liaison for planning enforcement.
* Assisting in officer and Member training.
* Providing enforcement support, as required across Planning Services.
* Assisting the Team Leader on regular committee reports on the Compliance Team performance.
Equal Opportunities
We have a strong commitment to achieving equality of opportunity and expect all employees to implement and promote our policy in their own work.
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