Senior Planning Officer in Enfield

Working as part of the Planning Decisions Team, you will lead a range of development schemes, maintaining and improving planning performance and providing an excellent customer experience. This key role offers an opportunity to develop your planning knowledge and experience in a busy planning environment.

You will deal with a range of planning applications, including industrial, retail, business, residential, green belt and heritage, reflecting the diverse composition and varied development opportunities the borough offers. An understanding of development management and associated planning legislation will be essential, but further training opportunities will be available to enhance your skills and experience.

You will have excellent customer focus and be able to demonstrate confidence in dealing with applicants and their agents, Councillors and residents. Enfield is a dynamic and progressive London Borough with excellent links to the city and central areas as well as Hertfordshire and Essex. It offers vast green open spaces, vibrant town centres, diverse character and excellent transport links, bringing significant development opportunities.

We want your skills and vision to help realise their potential. Headlining our ambitious growth agenda is the Borough’s largest residential led mixed use development at Meridian Water. The new Meridian Water railway station opened in summer 2019 and Phase 1 is well underway, with the first residents moving into the first new homes back in 2023. There is much more yet to come, including new housing and employment floor space, new public open spaces, shops and community facilities.

Our ambitions don’t end there as there are several estate regeneration schemes across the Borough that contribute to our ambitious housing targets delivering new high-quality mixed use residential led development which meet the modern housing and employment needs of our residents. Our new Local Plan is currently undergoing examination. The plan is ambitious in its aspirations for growth, offering exciting opportunities to help us deliver our priorities for the borough:

• More and better homes
• Strong, healthy and safe communities
• Clean and green spaces
• Thriving children and young people
• An economy that works for everyone

We would be delighted for you to help us achieve this vision across a wide range of development proposals. This is a fantastic opportunity for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to gain exceptional experience and make a real difference to the delivery of new homes and jobs and the future lives of our residents.

We can offer opportunities for personal development including flexible working or compressed hours, home working opportunities, generous annual leave, training opportunities and a friendly working environment.

Benefits:

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service.
• You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
• 1 month’s paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children’s Social Care.

We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview; therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application / CV.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do – by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you.