Planning Administration Officer - Braintree District Council
Braintree District Council
Permanent, Full Time
£25,795 - £28,861 per annum
Location: Braintree
Closing Date: 16th March 2025
Essex County Council (ECC) is supporting Braintree Council to recruit this Planning Administration Officer role.
The Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Planning Administration Officer to join our Development Management team. If you are an experienced Administration Officer or an administrator with suitable experience within a Planning team, this role may be the new challenge you are looking for.
Braintree will continue to be an area of significant growth over the coming years. We are looking to embrace this challenge to deliver well-designed new homes, create jobs, and improve and develop infrastructure for the benefit of existing and new communities.
About the Role
The role is pivotal within the team, taking responsibility for a diverse range of work from registering planning, enforcement, and landscape applications to issuing final decisions in accordance with requirements and in a timely manner.
Providing general administrative support to the Development Management, Landscape Services, Planning Enforcement, and Validation teams, you will manage telephone and email enquiries and receive and register all planning, street naming and numbering, and tree applications, along with requests for planning enforcement investigations and hedge removal notifications and complaints.
You will also take a lead on the consultation and publicity of planning applications, including statutory adverts in local newspapers and notification of statutory/non-statutory consultees and neighborhood properties, process revised plans, liaise with customers, and provide administrative support for appeals, including arranging venue and room hire and responding to queries.
Experience:
Our ideal candidate is someone with a strong work ethic, excellent communication and customer service skills, with knowledge or experience of working within a large team like a Development Management team, who can work efficiently and accurately. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and a proactive and positive approach to your work, with the ability to prioritize and respond to tight and fluctuating deadlines.
Accountabilities:
* Receipt and registration of all Planning Applications, Pre-Applications, Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs), Street Naming & Numbering Applications, and enquiries on the Council's systems (Uniform/IDOX), including communication with Applicants/Agents and processing of fees and refunds.
* Receipt and registration of requests for planning enforcement investigations, including communication with those requesting the investigation and notification of Ward Members, and setting up enforcement cases on Uniform/IDOX.
* Receipt and registration of all tree-related applications (TPO & TPOCON), Hedgerow Removal Notifications, High Hedge Complaints, and Tree Enquiries on the Council's systems (Uniform/IDOX), including communication with Applicants/Agents and processing of fees and refunds.
* Undertaking consultation and publicity of all planning applications and applications for tree works, including statutory adverts for local newspapers, notification of statutory and non-statutory consultees, and neighboring properties.
* Carrying out administrative procedures associated with making new Tree Preservation Orders and ensuring the Council's systems are up to date.
* Process revised plans including scanning/uploading to IDOX and notifying neighbors, contributors, and consultees where applicable.
* Check Decision Notices for completeness and issue to Applicant/Agent.
* Issue notification letters to customers who submitted representations following the issuing of a decision in relation to all planning and tree-related applications.
* Preparation of Planning Committee agenda and related notification of interested parties (contributors and consultees) and PowerPoint presentations for Planning Committee meetings.
* Register Appeals for the Development Management, Planning Enforcement, and Landscape Services teams on Uniform and upload all relevant documentation and correspondence on IDOX.
* Provide administrative support for appeals as required, including arranging venue and room hire, car parking, liaising with relevant Officers, and responding to correspondence via the appeals inbox.
* Update the Council's systems (Uniform/IDOX) when appeal decisions are received and undertake notifications to the wider teams and Members.
* Provide general administrative support to the Development Management teams, the Landscape Services team, the Planning Enforcement Team, and the Admin, Validation, Appeals, and Street Naming & Numbering Team.
* Deal with telephone and e-mail enquiries and other administrative tasks required to support the Development Management, Planning Enforcement, and Landscape Services teams.
* Process invoices, orders, application fees, and fee refunds.
* Provide administrative support to the wider Planning Service where projects cut across both Development Management and Planning Policy.
* Liaise with customers, maintaining professional standards, both verbally and in writing.
Why choose Braintree District Council?
Braintree District Council is an ambitious and forward-thinking authority with a vision of creating a great place for our residents and businesses. We are becoming one of the fastest growing Districts in the East of England with three growing towns, London just 45 minutes away, and the district located directly between the international transport centres of Stansted Airport and Harwich and Felixstowe International Ports.
Braintree District Council is a great place to work. We pride ourselves on our creative and innovative approach which is led by our staff. We are committed to having an engaged workforce who understand our strategy and how they can help deliver it. Some of the benefits of working for Braintree District Council are:
* Flexible working
* Hybrid working arrangements available (home/office based) subject to business need
* Free parking
* Local government pension scheme
* Learning and development for all staff
* Staff recognition schemes
* Extensive health and wellbeing programme including discounted gym membership.
To apply, click here: Planning Administration Officer
Closing date for receipt of applications: Midnight on Sunday 16th March
Please Note: Essex County Council is advertising this role on behalf of Braintree District Council and if successful you will be employed by Braintree District Council.
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