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Urban Designer

Camden Council • Full-time • London • £35k - £40.00k / year • 4w ago

Hours: Full time, 36 hours per week

Grade: Level 3, Zone 2 (£36,984)

Location: 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG

Closing date for applications: Sunday 3rd November 2024 23:55

About us

Camden is the most diverse and characterful London Borough stretching from Covent Garden to Hampstead Heath and including Bloomsbury, Camden Town, Euston and King’s Cross. More than half the Borough is within Conservation Areas but We Make Camden sets an ambitious agenda for growth and expectation to harness the benefits for our communities. The Council is using its significant land ownership to deliver some of this growth through its Community Investment Programme (CIP), investing £2.3bn to deliver 4,850 new homes (1,800 affordable), improvements to schools and building or refurbishing 9,000m^2 of community space.

Design and Place is a multi-disciplinary team that provides proactive planning and urban design advice to the Council as landowner, developer, planning authority and highway authority. Working collaboratively it creates, shapes and implements the vision for the borough and particularly for the areas of significant change through the production of planning frameworks, site-specific briefs and advice to Development Management, Housing Delivery and Highways.

About the role

We are looking for a talented urban designer to help deliver projects across Camden. This will involve a range of skill sets from the production of visions and frameworks that will shape the major areas of change in the Borough, to providing high quality urban design advice to Development Management, Housing Delivery and Transport. The ability to produce plans, graphics, images and documents of exceptional quality is essential along with the ability to critique and direct proposals from developers and their architects. This is an opportunity to positively influence growth in a London borough that demands and delivers some of the best new development in the country.

Key responsibilities

· To provide urban design expertise, diagrams, images and concepts to support the Council’s area based regeneration programme.

· To work with Development Management officers to influence positive design outcomes through the planning pre-application process.

· To work with CIP on the delivery of regeneration projects across the Borough.

· To undertake sites analysis, produce capacity studies, feasibility studies and make recommendations on Council owned sites.

· To produce high quality documents and presentations to promote the work of the team and the service.

· To manage projects within the ‘Raising Design Quality’ agenda including the Camden Design Awards and the Camden Design Review Panel.

In return, you can expect a great range of benefits including a fantastic pension scheme. We also recognise and reward high performance, and salary progression is based on individual performance. Make it work for you. Make it your Camden.

Additional Information

To view the Job Profile, please click HERE or copy and paste the below URL into your browser: http://camdocs.camden.gov.uk/HPRMWebDrawer/Record/10683915/file/document?inline

Camden Council is committed to diversity. We encourage applications from all sections of our diverse community and welcome applications from candidates from a BME background.

Camden has a strong flexible working ethos and believes in focusing on outcomes. Through taking this approach we welcome flexible working including a commitment to regular home working with technology to support this, job sharing and part time arrangements.

Camden is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

How to apply:

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply for job" link. In the ‘Why you?’ part of the application form you will be asked to explain how you meet the key requirements for this role listed in the advert. When explaining how you meet each of the requirements, please give examples that clearly demonstrate your skills, knowledge and experience. When writing your examples give a brief description of the situation or task but focus on the actions you took and the result of your actions.