Planning Enforcement Officer

**Planning Enforcement Officer**

**Salary: £37,035 - £41,511 pro rata, per annum**

**Grade: JK**

**Hours: Full time**

**Contract: Secondment/Fixed Term, 9 Months,**

**Location: Hybrid - You can work from home and from our office based in Selby whilst you cover an allocated part of the region.**

**Our team**

The Council’s Planning Services play a fundamental role in managing the natural and built environment, ensuring that the future development needs of the area can be accommodated to make it a better place in which to live and work.

This is an extremely exciting time to join us as we move forward as the new North Yorkshire Council. Our all-new Planning Service is at the heart of change and development within communities across our vast and varied geography, making it one of the largest Planning Services in the country. We will tackle diverse projects from domestic through to national infrastructure - offering opportunities for staff to develop expertise and contribute to projects that shape our area. If you are ambitious about your future in Planning this is a great time to join us as we invest in building a world class planning service, whilst being community focussed on a local level.

We operate a hybrid model of working, offering the opportunity for our staff to work from home, but also from a base within your ‘patch’ to enable you to be fully immersed within the community in which you will provide your skills and expertise. Bases of work are either Scarborough or Malton to allow for the reactive nature of the post.

**Role summary**

As Planning Enforcement Officer, you will play an important operational role in the enforcement of planning regulations and policy and ensuring delivery of an efficient and effective enforcement function. The role involves receiving, investigating, and preparing reports with recommendations on allegations of breaches of planning control, and undertaking systematic and periodic reviews of approvals to monitor compliance and identify unauthorised developments. You will take a creative and solution focused approach to implementing a positive culture within the team. You will manage your own enforcement caseload effectively, with the support and guidance of senior colleagues.

To enable your success within this role, you will need to demonstrate.
- An awareness, understanding and interpretation of national and local planning legislation, policy, and procedures
- The ability to work in a customer environment or with members of the public or organisations.
- The capability to work in a team and on own initiative.
- A commitment to work to tight timescales and achieve outcomes.

**Contact and Apply**

**Key Dates**

**Closing Date**: 19th March 2025

**Interviews**: 24th March 2025.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes. Enquiries regarding the vacancy or practices should be made directly with the third party.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Fixed term contract

Pay: £37,035.00-£41,511.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Selby YO8