ROLE PURPOSE

To assist with the delivery of the Council’s Planning Enforcement Service on all matters relating to the Planning Enforcement and in accordance with BCP’s Enforcement Plan, Government guidance and legislation. To deal with a varied caseload of enforcement cases, ensuring the Council achieves positive planning outcomes, ensuring planning legislation and policy is adhered to, and that successful enforcement can effectively assist in safeguarding the local environment in a timely fashion.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• To efficiently investigate and resolve a wide range of planning, advertisement, listed building and tree enforcement enquiries and complaints to aid the delivery of the Planning Enforcement service and to ensure the service provided by the Council is in accordance with statutory, national and local requirements.
• To undertake thorough assessments to establish if a breach of planning control or an offence has occurred, through desk-based research and site inspections. To record such investigations and findings and make recommendations to take or not to take action, or to negotiate outcomes to resolve a breach or to mitigate any planning harm identified, in discussion with their line manager and other senior officers within the Council.
• To be the lead officer for the Council on planning enforcement investigations and prosecutions relating to all planning, advertisement, conservation area, listed building and tree infringements and contraventions working with other professional experts. To draft, prepare and serve formal notices under the lead of the Enforcement Manager and/or the Senior Planning Enforcement Officer.
• To represent the Council where appropriate in a professional manner which safeguards the reputation of the Council; promoting a positive perception of the service and developing a culture of providing excellent customer care to all service users;
• To establish and maintain credible and effective working relationships, both internally and with external organisations.
• Represent the Growth and Infrastructure Directorate in appeals, informal hearings and public inquiries, with enforcement witness statements, legal action, and court cases as they affect all planning enforcement matters relating to planning, advertisement, conservation, listed building and tree infringements/contraventions/offences.