Planning Obligations Co-ordinator

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Job description

Planning Obligations Co-ordinator

Location: Swindon

Hours: 37

Salary: £44,711 p.a. plus benefits

Closing date: 14/04/2025

Job reference: 243

Interview date: 25/04/2025

Date posted: 31/03/2025

At Swindon Borough Council, we want our town to be the best it can be. Our ambitious vision in the new Swindon Plan is supported by realistic planning and regeneration programmes, with the people of Swindon at their heart. Because that’s who we’re doing it for – the communities and businesses that make our town great.

As part of the Council, you’ll support a friendly local authority making decisions with real impact. It’s all for better public services. Better processes. A Better Swindon. And a better quality of life, for everyone. Join us, and Swindon will be better with you.

In this role you will provide senior level scrutiny and accountability to the monitoring, collection and spend of developer obligations and contributions, ensuring the council’s planning functions are positioned in a customer focused and solutions led way, creating the right conditions for accelerating high-quality development and supporting sustainable growth in Swindon.

You will build trust and confidence with external Parish partners ensuring local infrastructure needs are recognised and brought forward (where appropriate) into Borough wide strategic infrastructure delivery plans. The role will contribute to wider policy creation ensuring developer contributions and obligations are received in a flexible way to promote the widest possible application of these resources to meet the current and emerging needs of our residents.

Your next role

Through your manager, you will support the Chief Planning Officer to unlock planning barriers and provide the appropriate policy context to shape key regeneration projects, transform the town centre and support the council’s emerging new ways of localities working.

You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).

Your next package

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

As a Swindon Borough Council employee, you will work in a diverse and exciting environment, which encourages creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.

Your next steps

Read the role profile and to apply please send your CV and cover letter to [e-mail] quoting the ref number 243 outlining your skills and experience.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion regarding the position, the organisation and the team structure, please contact Richard Bell, Chief Planning Officer, email [e-mail]

As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion