Historic Environment Planning Advisor
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £39,000 to £43,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus generous benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle, Newcastle |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Historic England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Summary
We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Historic Environment Planning Advisor.
This is a Full Time, Permanent position based in Newcastle with hybrid working.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.
To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.
What you will be doing
The North East and Yorkshire Development Advice Teams support local communities (including through local authority partners) in appreciating the significance of their local historic environment and its potential to deliver benefits for the community by promoting the effective use of the planning system at strategic and local levels.
As part of this team, you will take delegated responsibility for providing Historic England’s advice both to local and mayoral authority partners in the preparation and revision of development plans and to local communities in relation to the historic environment and the planning process. Applying the ethos of ‘constructive conservation’ and making effective use of Historic England’s Conservation Principles in all their advisory work, you will also provide advice on strategic planning matters such as national infrastructure projects, on partners’ strategic plans, general planning advice to colleagues in the region, as well as contributing to national and local guidance.
Please note that the role:
requires occasional travel to sites not serviced by public transport.
will require occasional attendance at community meetings which are usually held at evenings or weekends.
Who we are looking for
Educated to degree level or equivalent in town planning or a closely related subject, or significant experience in a relevant field
A thorough understanding of the national planning system and its legislative context at both the strategic and local level and its role in the sustainable management of the historic environment
Substantial practical experience of local and/or strategic planning processes, particularly in plan preparation
Practical experience of development management, urban design and/or historic environment conservation
Ability to engender enthusiasm for the historic environment
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.
We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.
We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.
Why work for Historic England
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.
Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.
Provisional interview dates: 31st July 2025
Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –
https://historicengland.org.uk/media/r0gky4qp/historic-environment-planning-adviser-north.odt
We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Historic Environment Planning Advisor.
This is a Full Time, Permanent position based in Newcastle with hybrid working.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.
To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.
What you will be doing
The North East and Yorkshire Development Advice Teams support local communities (including through local authority partners) in appreciating the significance of their local historic environment and its potential to deliver benefits for the community by promoting the effective use of the planning system at strategic and local levels.
As part of this team, you will take delegated responsibility for providing Historic England’s advice both to local and mayoral authority partners in the preparation and revision of development plans and to local communities in relation to the historic environment and the planning process. Applying the ethos of ‘constructive conservation’ and making effective use of Historic England’s Conservation Principles in all their advisory work, you will also provide advice on strategic planning matters such as national infrastructure projects, on partners’ strategic plans, general planning advice to colleagues in the region, as well as contributing to national and local guidance.
Please note that the role:
requires occasional travel to sites not serviced by public transport.
will require occasional attendance at community meetings which are usually held at evenings or weekends.
Who we are looking for
Educated to degree level or equivalent in town planning or a closely related subject, or significant experience in a relevant field
A thorough understanding of the national planning system and its legislative context at both the strategic and local level and its role in the sustainable management of the historic environment
Substantial practical experience of local and/or strategic planning processes, particularly in plan preparation
Practical experience of development management, urban design and/or historic environment conservation
Ability to engender enthusiasm for the historic environment
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.
We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.
We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.
Why work for Historic England
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.
Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.
Provisional interview dates: 31st July 2025
Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –
https://historicengland.org.uk/media/r0gky4qp/historic-environment-planning-adviser-north.odt
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