Senior Landscape Planner | Birmingham

Our busy, inter-disciplinary Birmingham Office is conveniently located within the heart of the city centre (Cherry Street) and has easy access to public transport, including being a short walk from New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill Stations. It is a friendly and sociable office offering a supportive working environment. Stantec support a hybrid working approach blending a mix of home and office working.
Our busy Landscape team have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Landscape Architect with Landscape Planning experience to join their team, working on a broad range of prestigious landscape projects across the country. This is an opportunity to work collaboratively within the Landscape team, including senior colleagues and technical and design specialists in Birmingham, London, Bristol and Reading and across the business. As a result, you will benefit from the expertise of a range of skilled and experienced practitioners and develop as a well-rounded professional.
About you
This is a unique opportunity for you to develop your career, working on and contributing to a wide range of projects varying in scale and sector, including prestigious urban regeneration, new town settlements, tall buildings, strategic, residential/mixed use, infrastructure, solar and energy projects at various stages through the planning process. Your responsibilities will include Landscape and Townscape Planning input to inform design, reporting on landscape/townscape and visual impact and providing strategic and detailed design advice.
You will ideally have experience in the following areas:
Preliminary landscape and visual appraisals to inform the development process (assessing landscape and visual opportunities and constraints of site and project brief, through desk-based research, site visits, planning authority and stakeholder consultations as required) and advice to project team and / or client.
Baseline landscape and visual text for promotional Vision documents
Landscape and visual impact assessments
Conceptual and strategic design sketches as appropriate
Townscape and visual impact assessments and tall building assessments
LVIA/TVIA chapters for inclusion in Environmental Statements
Strategic assessments of designations such as Green Belts and Strategic Gaps
Landscape Capacity Studies and character assessments
Representations to Local plans
Whilst landscape planning is a focus of the role, you will have the opportunity to continue to develop your landscape design abilities.
We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special. We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture and one of high support and high challenge, where we are not afraid to take on new and greater responsibilities and are each individually encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally, with genuine career opportunities based on merit. We create a working environment that offers flexibility, adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
For more information, please contact Andrew Trueman (Talent Acquisition Manager), #####
Reasonable adjustments
We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustment, special access request).
Please contact Andrew or a member of our talent team (Careers.UK&#####) if reasonable adjustments are required. We are very happy to assist.
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About Stantec
Stantec is a top-tier global consultancy that designs with communities in mind. The Stantec community unites approximately 28,000 employees, working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.
We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. With around 3,000 people working in integrated regional teams across the UK & Ireland, we plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our client’s vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and comprehensive market insight.
We deal with today’s challenges but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.
For more information on Stantec UK Inclusion & Diversity approach please visit:
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