Principal Transport Planner

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Camden London Borough Council Full time

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study, and visit. Because we're not just home to UK's fast-growing economy. We're home to the most important conversations happening today. And we're making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here's where you can help decide a better future for us all. As a Principal Transport Planner in the Safe and Healthy Streets Team you will be responsible for delivering significant neighbourhood-based, traffic-reduction, transformational Healthy Streets projects, you will lead on the delivery of projects that align with the Camden Transport Strategy.

The role

In this role you will lead on the development and delivery of multiple, significant, area-wide "Healthy Streets" projects within neighbourhoods across Camden.

The Safe & Healthy Streets team at Camden is at the forefront of Healthy Streets based project delivery and in the recent Healthy Streets Scorecard Camden was the third placed borough overall and the top inner London borough based on Housing Density.

You will be responsible for leading a sub-team of two transport planners (one at Senior level, one at Planner level) in a pro-active, innovative, and dynamic way, helping those officers deliver a portfolio of Healthy Streets projects and support their personal development.

You will lead in delivering the roll-out of larger and more complex, area-wide, low-traffic "Safe & Healthy Streets" projects across Camden. This will include project managing area-wide traffic reduction, public realm, and road safety improvement schemes in priority locations across the Borough. For examples of some the types of schemes you could be working in this role please see the following schemes Camden is currently engaging or consulting on:

Dartmouth Park Area Healthy Neighbourhood

Camden High Street Pedestrianisation

Camden Street Area Safe and Healthy Streets

In developing schemes such as the above, you will be required to consider how neighbourhood-based Healthy Streets projects can support wider improvements to our public realm and the climate emergency, for example through the introduction of urban greening and so on.

The role will be responsible for project management across all aspects of area-wide, traffic-reduction Healthy Streets scheme development and delivery with a non-exhaustive list of key tasks below:


• Project planning,


• Feasibility and optioneering,


• Engagement & consultation,


• Report writing,


• Stakeholder management,


• Monitoring,


• Budgeting and financial controls

You will work with colleagues across the Council – including within planning, place and design, regeneration, sustainability, and inclusive economy – to ensure that neighbourhood-based Healthy Streets projects support and contribute to wider strategic initiatives, such as the renewal of our High Streets and improving air quality.

About you

To be successful in this securing this role you will have strong experience of successful project management and delivery of complex, area-wide traffic-reduction and heathy streets schemes. You will also have a strong understanding and experience of the policy and statutory framework within which Healthy Streets, transport planning and related activities.

You will be a pro-active and forward-thinking experienced project manager, capable of successfully managing initiatives, often over-lapping with one another, both on time and to budget.

You will be able to demonstrate effective partnership working and the ability to develop strong stakeholder relations, including liaising with all relevant external organisations.

To ensure success in this role, you will need to have a strong understanding and appreciate of issues specifically around streetscape design, accessibility, and sustainability.

You will be able to help prepare high quality papers and reports for Council Committees, public meetings, and other bodies such as appeals and public inquiries (may be required to attend such events as and when necessary).

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to effectively help support and oversee the workload of more junior members of a team and/or consultants.

To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by clicking HERE.

Working for Camden

We're ready to welcome your ideas, your views, and your rebellious spirit. Help us redefine how we're supporting our communities, and we'll redefine what a career can be. If that sounds good to you, we'd love to talk.

At Camden, you'll receive a host of benefits as well as joining a flexible working employer. Click HERE to see full details of our benefits.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit our recruitment website

Closing date: Monday 26th August 2024 at 23:59

To apply, please click "Apply Now".

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden's commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

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