Enforcement Officer
Enforcement Officer
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Job Description
Salary:
Hours per week: 37 hours
Fixed term: 12 months Maternity cover
Interview date: Monday 16 June 2025
Planning Shaping Tomorrows Communities Today
Our Planning Service is at the heart of Wiltshires growth and development. We ensure that every decision we make promotes highquality placeshaping guided by policy and best practices in urban design. As a statutory and regulatory service deliver housing and employment in line with our adopted Local Plan.
As a Planning Enforcement Officer youll oversee various enforcement cases ensuring compliance with planning policies.
Our Enforcement Team plays a vital role in the planning process ensuring highquality sustainable development in line with the Development Plan and other relevant considerations.
In this role you will undertake investigations into alleged breaches of planning laws covering areas such as listed buildings advertisements and protected trees. Your role involves making decisions on appropriate actions from negotiated compliance to prosecution preparation while also assessing threats to public safety and protecting the environment. You will be expected to competently draft enforcement notices reports and witness statements as and when required.
Skills Knowledge & experience required
- Educated to degree level in a relevant subject OR equivalent
experience of working in an investigative/regulatory or enforcement role - ITQ 2 or equivalent skill
- Good knowledge of planning practice procedures legislation advice and policies OR
historic building and conservation practice procedures legislation advice and policies - Prepare concise reports and orally present evidence in hearings Public Inquiry and occasionally Court in a concise persuasive and convincing manner as a witness and expert witness
This role may be subject to certain successful security checks; please see the role description for more information.
Benefits
Wiltshire Council is a friendly welcoming workplace with a One Council why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people part of our agile and highperforming team youll enjoy:
- Flexible working hours
- Competitive salary
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Hybrid working arrangements with modern open plan offices in our hubs at Trowbridge Chippenham and Salisbury
- Career development opportunities
- Exciting and varied projects that make a real difference to our communities
Application Process
- Please download and read the role description and person specifications carefully before you apply as well asOur Identity.
- Please ensure that if you are submitting a CV then your cover letter includes how you meet the essential criteria of the role description why you are applying for the role and what skills you would bring to the role.
- Application process
For more details please contact Darren Hobson Planning Enforcement Manager at or call 24.
New to Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a place where people love to live and work. One of Englands largest unitary councils it offers beautiful landscapes diverse heritage and attractive towns and on the eastern edge of the South West region we border counties of Dorset Somerset Hampshire Berkshire Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire and the combined West of England enjoys strong subregional links and is within commutable distance of London Bristol Southampton and the South Coast.
We are firmly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and vulnerable adults and to the principles of inclusion and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services. Read ourstatement of commitment to equality and inclusion.
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Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full Time
