Our Development Management service is made up of the following teams:
Planning Applications
We carefully manage development and planning applications to improve our built environment.
This work involves securing sustainable development through pre-application advice and guidance, planning performance agreements and managing the life cycle of planning applications from inception through to discharge of conditions and any associated appeal work.
Planning Enforcement
This team investigates complaints and suspected breaches of planning control which might include development taking place without the benefit of planning permission and breaches of planning conditions.
Our enforcement professionals carry out appeal work and liaise closely with our legal colleagues when enforcement action is needed.
They provide consultation responses on planning applications alongside more specialist advice to the wider council and public.
Such work includes tree protection orders and associated applications, policy support, reviewing and designating conservation areas and improving the environmental performance of development by (for example) securing biodiversity net gain and sustainable urban drainage.
Planning Support
Our team provides administrative and technical support. This includes planning application validation and registration.
Business and Infrastructure Monitoring
Responsible for the collection, monitoring and spend of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), Section 106 monitoring, Local Land Charges, Street Naming and Numbering (SNN) and the Geographical Information System.
We are part of the Open Digital Community which brings together council officers, digital specialists and technical experts, all working to shape the next generation of local government planning services and improve planning processes.
Apply for a job
We are delighted you are interested in joining one of our Development Management teams.
Please take a look at our current planning job vacancies and submit an application form, (which can be accompanied by a CV).