Planning Officer, Grade 6-8 (£30,699- £37,038) plus a market supplement of £3,168 p/a

About Croydon

As one of London’s largest and most diverse boroughs, Croydon is a fantastic place to live, work and spend time, with all the benefits of close proximity to the rest of London and the southeast.

Over the past decade we have seen huge investment, regeneration, and growth in our Borough. Croydon remains an attractive and important part of London for ongoing growth and investment – growth from which we want to see all our communities’ benefit.

However, we must keep up to date and continually adapt and change to focus on the needs our residents are facing today, while making sure we are a financially sustainable Council by 2024. This brings opportunities for those who want to work in a fast-moving environment, focused on improvement and delivering better services. Croydon is an exciting place to work.

We have a great planning management team, who lead, inspire, and believe in Croydon. If you want a challenge with great job satisfaction, there is no better opportunity than Croydon.

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If you would like to discuss further these roles and how you could fit into the team, please contact.

Ross Gentry or

Helen Furnell

About the Roles

We have an opportunity for a Planning Officer to join our vibrant and busy Development Management Service. You will be responsible for progressing and determining a wide variety of planning applications, appeals and pre application enquiries.

Croydon is a varied Borough and officers have the opportunity to we deal with a whole spectrum of planning applications from green belt proposals to large mixed use urban developments.  On a day to day basis you will be responsible for managing your own case load of planning applications, pre applications and appeals. This includes validating planning applications, undertaking site visits, working in mutli-disciplinary teams to assess proposals, negotiating with developers, responding to queries from members of the public and making recommendations on Planning applications. A successful candidate will have be a talented, enthusiastic, motivated and knowledgeable individual who demonstrates a good understanding of planning policy and development management legislation, have good written and verbal communication skills and to be able to work to strict deadlines.

We would welcome applications from across our grade from those just starting out in their career, newly qualified planners and those looking to expand on their experience.

We run regular training and development sessions on a wide range of planning and development matters, bringing in external speakers as well as in house experts and we encourage staff to take part in the organisation and topic selection. Each and every one of our staff play a vital role in delivering a planning service, if you enjoy making a difference, being part of a team and love planning, we would like to hear from you.

Working for Croydon

·     Up to 32 Days annual leave (depending on length of service) plus Bank Holidays

·     Pension – Local Government Pension Scheme

·     Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements available

·     Career development/learning/training opportunities

· We also promote professional membership of the RTPI and cover the associated costs

·     Employee Assistance Programme – Providing advice and Counselling

·     Career development/learning/training/apprenticeship opportunities