Planning and Compliance Officer
- Employer
- Westminster City Council
- Location
- Westminster City Hall
- Salary
- £25,833 - £29,796 per annum
- Closing date
- 30 Jun 2019
- Reference
- WCC11954
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- Employer Sector
- Government & Military, Public Sector
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Travel
- None
- Job Type
- Compliance
Job Details
Planning and Compliance Officer WCC11954
Salary Range: £25,833 - £29,796 per annum
Work Location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 30 June 2019
About Us:
Located at the very heart of London, the City of Westminster includes recognisable landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, Chinatown, Covent Garden, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus. With 11,000 listed buildings, 56 conservation areas and constant pressure for commercial and residential development, Westminster is one of the country’s most challenging and interesting places to develop your career in planning.
The Role:
Maintaining the unique identity of Westminster means ensuring property owners and developers adhere to planning regulations ̶ and that’s the job of our 20-strong Planning Enforcement Team. Working in this diverse and fast-paced urban environment, you’ll undertake enquiries including service of s330 Notices prior to the drafting and arranging service of formal enforcement notices all within prescribed stringent timescales. There will also be opportunities to assist the Team in undertaking surveys, site visits, interviews and thorough research of records regarding alleged breaches of planning control.
About You:
You will need a degree or diploma in an area such as Law or Town Planning, ideally including some knowledge of planning law and its enforcement. An eye for detail and the ability to follow strict procedures in the serving of notices is essential. Well-organised and analytical, you’ll be proficient in using office IT. Good communication skills are also vital.
What We Offer:
If you’re as productive as you are ambitious and collaborative as you are enterprising, this is your chance to take real ownership of your work, right in the heart of iconic Westminster, a true ‘City for All’. This is a unique place where it all happens. And where it could all happen for you.
As a progressive and innovative organisation, we welcome applications from candidates keen to work in an agile environment with flexible conditions.
Contact details for an informal discussion: Roald Piper, Area Team Leader Enforcement on 020 7641 3250.
Company
Working for us
Our culture: The Westminster Way
At Westminster we foster a culture of openness, transparency and integrity, where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and develop to be the very best.
The Westminster Way is the council’s commitment to our staff and is underpinned by three pillars:
- Personal development: Everyone has talent.
We want everyone to thrive at Westminster and so we take the time to nurture our own talent – coaching and mentoring our people to be the very best.
- Value our people and diversity: Everyone is valued
We embrace our differences, to bring new perspectives to the future challenges of our city.
- The Westminster Way of working: Everyone is a leader
At Westminster our people are productive, ambitious, collaborative and enterprising to ensure we provide the best service to our residents. We champion modern and agile working and an open and transparent outlook to the way we work.
We are committed to attracting and recruiting the best talent and making the most of those who are already a valued member of our team.
We are passionate about putting the resources available to us to the best use, prioritising the areas of greatest need and continually seeking out new ways of working efficiently to deliver and pioneer exceptional public services.
We work together to adapt to the changing needs of our communities, resulting in a dynamic atmosphere where ambition, diversity and creativity are celebrated.
We are committed to attracting and recruiting the very best talent from the widest diverse market whilst making the most of those who are already a valued member of our team.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best: that is the Westminster Way.
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
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