Town Hall
160 Whitechapel Road
LONDON
E1 1BJ
Recognising the importance of infrastructure, Tower Hamlets Council has an extensive Infrastructure Planning Team, which you will co-lead and manage. The team is a core planning function with expertise in infrastructure planning, CIL, and S106. The team is breaking new ground and establishing infrastructure planning at the heart of great place making, spatial planning, and delivery.
With the aim of enabling the planning, funding, development, and delivery of infrastructure, we are utilising data and technical knowledge as well as seeking out new and innovative ways, with a wide range of partners, to ensure the Council delivers the right infrastructure, in the right place, at the right time.
All of this in one of the most diverse boroughs in London, delivering significant housing and economic growth alongside a rapidly expanding population. The borough also benefits from the rich history of East London and an abundance of heritage assets such as the Tower of London, Island Gardens, and Victoria Park.
You will be leading our Levies and Growth Team, with further details on these functions below. However, we are a wider service that also covers Section 106 Planning Obligations, Infrastructure Programming, Development Coordination, Development Viability, and Utilities Planning. As new challenges arise, there is often space for us to flex our roles and structure, allowing opportunities to take on new challenges and support our collective development.
The Levies Team:
- A well-established team and well-respected experts in their field. We have excellent processes and systems in place to provide a robust service, collecting significant amounts of Mayoral and Local CIL and supporting on-site delivery through CIL-in-Kind.
- Recognising the likely emergence of the Building Safety Levy in 2025, the team is working with Government and preparing to tackle this new workload.
- We keep our CIL Charging Schedule under regular review and will always act if we think there is evidence for us to make adjustments to it.
The Growth Team:
- This team helps the council understand our collective infrastructure needs and our ability to deliver to meet those needs. This includes our living Infrastructure Delivery Plan, sophisticated CIL, and S106 forecasting and subsequent analysis reporting on needs vs. means.
- The team also takes on a range of infrastructure-specific challenges. In recent years we have produced innovative evidence and plans on matters such as children’s play, community spaces, digital, water, and energy planning. We are now working to see that this translates into effective implementation, alongside considering our next set of evidence and intelligence challenges.
The position offers the successful applicant a high-profile role that engages with major developers, strategic partners, senior managers, and members of the Council.
About You
Tower Hamlets is a great place to live and work, and we are passionate about what we do. We are committed to creating great places that make our communities proud to live in and that can be enjoyed, now and long into the future. To help us achieve this, we are looking for someone who will share our passion and relish the opportunity to tackle the exciting challenges ahead.
Your technical and professional knowledge will be important, and you will be expected to deliver high-quality outcomes using practical programme management and team management skills. More importantly, you will be able to set the right example and inspire. You will be skilled in leading, motivating, and creating a positive and effective working environment for both the team and the individuals within it. In addition, you will build great relationships with your team, colleagues, partners, and management to enable the collective delivery of our aims.
Requirements
This post is open to candidates with appropriate knowledge, skills, and experience to fulfil the job description and person specification attached to the role.
Benefits and Allowances
- Annual Leave – generous leave allowance with continuous service provisions, granting additional leave to be achieved;
- Pensions - You will automatically become a member of the Council's rewarding pension scheme;
- Flexible working - the council seeks to ensure that employees achieve improved work-life balance and offers flexibility to staff members such as the option to work from home (when appropriate);
- Learning & development – the Council promotes continuous development of staff members and supports a wide range of internal and external training including project management, leadership development framework & technical training.
- Staff loan scheme for annual season ticket - The council gives interest-free season ticket loans to staff who have successfully completed their probationary period;
- Travel schemes/allowances – this includes: cycle to work scheme, pool bike scheme, and expenses covered with all travel related to working tasks;
- Employee Assistance Programme - the council offers an employee assistance programme that provides confidential counselling support services for both personal and work-related issues to staff.
Additional Employee Information
Interview date: Week commencing 6th January 2025
If you have any questions about the roles or would like an informal chat, please contact Matthew at: matthew.pullen@towerhamlets.gov.uk
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