Urban Designer

My Plymouth based client is seeking an Urban Designer for a 6 month contract.

Key Tasks for the Urban Designer:
* The delivery of masterplans and design guidance as part of the planning and regeneration process, and to help deliver complex and strategically important development proposals
* The assessment of urban and landscape character and quality, and the provision of design advice, to ensure that planning and other decisions are well informed and deliver a quality city
* The determination of planning applications where design is a major factor

Essential:
* Ideally Degree level or equivalent in Town Planning, urban design, architecture, or related discipline enabling eligibility for (or working towards) chartered membership of an appropriate professional institute
* Extensive experience of urban planning functions and development schemes eg urban design, strategic landscape architecture, conservation, local and area planning, urban regeneration, development management
* Awareness of commercial development finance and the impacts on major development proposals
* Experience of working on large scale, complex and controversial development
* Experience of representing an organisational public inquiries, hearings, public meetings or committees.
* Experience of coordinating staff and consultants in the delivery of programmes of work

Desirable
* Experience in the use of CAD and freehand drawing
* Substantial experience in a Planning related discipline
* Eligibility for or working towards membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute or other appropriate professional institute
* Specialist knowledge of, and demonstrable experience in, town planning functions
* Experience of preparing and/or presenting evidence for public inquiries and other hearings
* Commitment to actively promote corporate working and support for corporate initiatives

Skills and Technical Competencies
* Analytical and problem solving skills to take on the more complex cases and to process, interpret, evaluate and apply a wide range of complex data streams, social and financial inputs and valued judgements

Spring Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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