Conservation & Urban Design Officer - Planning Control
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £36.12 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | WOOLWICH, London, SE18 6HQ |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Greenwich RQ1277086 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Conservation & Urban Design Officer - Planning & Building Control
Reference no: Greenwich RQ1277086
Pay rate: £36.12 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: WOOLWICH, London
Hybrid working, a minimum two days per week at the office with Tuesday being a mandatory office day
A Conservation & Urban Design Officer is required to work within the Conservation and Urban Design unit in the Planning Policy Team, and play an essential role in preserving the unique heritage of the Royal Borough ensuring that proposed development is sustainable, inclusive, well designed and effectively tailored to its places and local needs. To provide planning advice in relation to all matters concerning heritage assets, particularly conservation areas and listed buildings. This is an exceptional opportunity to influence change in a key part of London. A degree in a subject relevant to urban design, architecture or conservation is essential for this role.
Key responsibilities:
Lead on implementing conservation, listed building and other related projects and programmes.
Provide specialist advice on all aspects relating to conservation and urban design including recommendations on applications and pre-applications for listed building consent and planning permission involving conservation and design related issues.
Prepare and give evidence at public inquiries and appeals as required on heritage, conservation and urban design issues.
Contribute to the preparation and review of conservation and design related policies and guidance, including conservation area appraisals and design codes.
Contribute to the conservation and historic buildings aspects of the preparation and review of the Local Plan and other policy documents.
Support the Urban Design Manager across varied workstreams.
Competently managing own caseload comprising concurrent projects and responsibilities, working independently and as part of a team.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
A degree in a subject relevant to urban design, architecture or conservation is essential.
Experience:
Experience of processing listed building consent and certificate of lawfulness applications and providing heritage and design comments on planning applications.
Experience of answering enquiries and providing specialist advice on heritage and design related issues and experience of managing local heritage lists.
Experience of preparing Conservation Area appraisals.
Relevant experience in conservation, Heritage, urban design and/or architecture, as well as relevant experience of conservation, heritage and design matters in relation to planning.
Skills & Abilities:
Proven ability to deal with major and sensitive development proposals and projects involving listed buildings and/or within conservation areas.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
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Job Ref: Greenwich RQ1277086
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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