Principal Planning Officer Grade 14 (£47,805 - £49,890)plus Market Supp of £6971

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.

Click here to hear what our staff say about why they love working at Croydon.

Ross - https://youtu.be/Y1XuA5jt5zk

Jamar - https://youtu.be/ymicZUQsc6E

Grace - https://youtu.be/rysO2bACU54

Nicola - https://youtu.be/80m5go_b1lk

Chris - https://youtu.be/IHg9YF5v-rI

Watch “Live, work, Study, Build” here: Live, Work, Study, Build - Develop Croydon - YouTube

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

Jan Slominski or Jan.slominski2@croydon.gov.uk

Helen Furnell helen.furnell@croydon.gov.uk

We have an opportunity for a Principal Planning Officer within our Development Management Team. The role is varied and you will have a key role in further enhancing service delivery for our customers and to focus specifically on the realisation of sustainable growth, firmly embedded in high standards of design and the maximisation of social, economic and environmental benefits.

You will work in a vibrant and busy Development Management Service. The post holders will focus on project managing some of the largest and complex developments that Croydon has to offer from pre application, to planning applications and through to post decision matters. Dealing with schemes which are high profile, sensitive and complex in nature. You will also have the opportunity to directly line manage, have delegated decision making powers and be involved in identifying and implementing service improvements.

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 whilst providing support to the officers you manage. The successful candidate will need to be a talented, politically astute, enthusiastic, motivated, experienced and knowledgeable individual who demonstrates practical experience of comprehensively assessing all aspects of development proposals with a sound understanding of planning policy and legislation. Moreover, you will need to be solution focussed and resilient in a pressurised environment and will need to be exceptionally skilled in the various negotiation and communication techniques (across all mediums).