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Location: Shropshire Hybrid Working Pay: £32.54 per hour PAYE Hours: 37 hours per week Contract: 3-month rolling contract Hybrid: Predominantly remote 1 office day per week (Thursday) Site Visits: Required Driving: Full driving licence and access to own vehicle essential
We are recruiting for an experienced Senior Planning Enforcement Officer to join a busy Planning Enforcement and Development Management service in Shropshire.
This is a senior-level position requiring someone who can confidently manage their own complex planning enforcement caseload, provide specialist advice and support colleagues across the wider enforcement service.
The team handles more than 500 planning enforcement cases each year, ranging from significant unauthorised developments to smaller technical breaches.
### The Role
You will take responsibility for planning enforcement cases from initial investigation through to resolution and formal action where necessary.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Managing a varied and complex planning enforcement caseload
- Investigating alleged breaches of planning control
- Evaluating evidence and determining appropriate enforcement action
- Providing specialist professional and technical planning enforcement advice
- Liaising with internal departments, external agencies and other stakeholders
- Preparing detailed reports and recommendations for delegated decisions
- Identifying appropriate remedial action where development does not comply with approved plans, conditions or relevant requirements
- Preparing and presenting reports to Planning Committee
- Attending xgikmsk court hearings, public inquiries and other formal proceedings
- Preparing and presenting evidence
- Supporting planning enforcement appeals
- Undertaking site inspections across the county
- Maintaining accurate case information on Development Management systems
- Supporting improvements to planning enforcement procedures and service delivery
The Council specifically requires the postholder to undertake case management, evaluate evidence, prepare recommendations and attend committees, court hearings
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