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Are you an experienced and motivated Landscape Architect looking for your next career move within a highly reputable firm? If so, we have a fantastic new opportunity to join our busy Master Planning, Landscape, and Assessment team in Cambridge!
The Masterplanning, Landscape and Assessment (MLA) Team at Bidwells is an integral part of our award-winning Planning department. This team are involved in a range of work and schemes across cities, towns, villages and rural areas, assessing natural systems, built form, and landscape character to shape design strategies that feel authentic and build strong planning narratives, ensuring schemes are both imaginative and deliverable. Whether shaping new communities or enhancing existing places, we focus on long-term value and lasting impact to create places that people actually use.
Working closely alongside the Head of Masterplanning and Landscape Architecture, the Senior Landscape Architect will provide professional advice, prepare strategies, deliver projects and act in the best interests of clients with regards to all landscape/ urban design and planning matters. The work is varied and no day will be the same.
What you’ll be doing
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Undertake assessments to establish site constraints and assess development potential including detailed inspections, planning histories, and policy analyses.
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Prepare Design and Access Statements, Landscape or Green Infrastructure Strategies, Development Briefs or Design Codes.
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Prepare the delivery of technical landscape architectural schemes, including coordination with contractors and other technical consultants.
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Prepare, monitor, and promote masterplans and landscape strategy input of planning applications in accordance with agreed client instructions.
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Provide professional advice and support to Planning Consultants.
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Undertake Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA) and Landscape and Visual Appraisals (LVA) as required.
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Manage and anticipate clients’ needs, ensuring targets, deadlines and service levels are achieved.
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Maintain existing client relationships.
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Identify new business opportunities. Attend networking events.
About you
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Ideally a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI) or currently on the pathway to Chartership.
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Relevant undergraduate / post graduate qualification.
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Relevant Landscape Architecture project experience.
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Professional experience in Landscape Practice or in a relevant area
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Some previous experience in the preparation of Master Plans, Photomontages, 3D Visualisations and working drawing packages, ideally for RIBA work stages 1-7.
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Good at building and maintaining client relationships.
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Having an awareness and understanding of issues affecting the economy and the implications on MLA / planning consultancies would be useful.
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IT proficient, particularly with Adobe Suite, AutoDesk, SketchUp and MS Office.
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Report writing skills and excellent business English with good attention to detail.
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Full driving licence.
Why Bidwells?
We’re a different kind of business. Whilst we’re a major player in the property sector, Bidwells remains a privately-owned, independent Partnership, with an inclusive, entrepreneurial culture. We give our people autonomy and take the time to listen. As a certified B Corporation (B-Corp), we are dedicated to using our business as a force for good, driving innovation, and creating long-term value for our clients, communities, and the environment.
What’s in it for you
Competitive Salary: We recognise and reward talent with generous salary and group bonus scheme. As a Real Living Wage employer, we’re committed to fair pay that reflects the true cost of living.
Comprehensive Benefits: Including up to 8% matched pension, 28 days holiday (+ bank holidays) as a minimum, along with your birthday off work, a wellness day, paid sabbaticals, private medical cover, medicash plan, lifestyle discounts and perks, and more.
Professional Development: Continuous learning, study support and promotion opportunities.
Innovative Culture: Be part of a forward-thinking team at the forefront of industry trends.
Family Friendly: We offer enhanced family leave policies to support individuals close to you.
Work-Life Balance: We value your well-being and offer agile working to support it.
Bidwells is dedicated to fostering a truly inclusive culture of belonging, where everyone can thrive and succeed as their true and authentic selves at every level. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and positively encourage applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief. Flexible working requests are considered from day one.
Recruitment agencies: Bidwells only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been contacted and directed by a member of our Talent Acquisition Team to work on a specific vacancy. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Bidwells or any of our employees other than via our Applicant Tracking System and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid. Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Bidwells will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
