Environmental Protection Officer (Planning)

JOB DESCRIPTIONPOST TITLE: Environmental Health Officer/Environmental Protection OfficerJOB PURPOSE:You will effectively promote and, where appropriate, enforce environmental protection across the district (''environmental protection'' refers to regulating industrial emissions, local air quality management, contaminated land, drinking water from private supplies, anti-social behaviour and nuisance from commercial premises and planning/licensing advice).Your primary responsibility is to protect the public and the environment and groups such as consumers, tenants, residents and workers.You will also regulate to achieve local economic growth, for example by improving regulatory outcomes, without imposing unnecessary burdens, thereby reducing business costs or by providing Primary Authority Services.MAIN DUTIES (briefly summarise principal duties:You will conduct re-active and pro-active interventions (''interventions'' refers to the provision of advice, inspections, investigations, audits, surveillance and other monitoring/survey activity, and the public health and environmental impact assessment of proposed development or applications for licences/permitted processes).You will undertake initiatives to bring about environmental compliance without the need for enforcement, such as by participating in business or consumer education programmes or by working with businesses on accreditation schemes.You will carry out initiatives to promote the Council and the service.You will ..... full job details .....