Senior Landscape Architect

We're seeking an experienced and ambitious Senior Landscape Architect with strong Landscape Planning and LVIA expertise to join our growing design team.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the direction of our new landscape team, develop your career, and contribute to projects across sectors including urban regeneration, new town settlements, tall buildings, residential/mixed-use greenfield development, commercial, infrastructure, and energy at various planning stages.

What we offer:

• A flexible, hybrid working environment and a comprehensive benefits package, including generous pension, life assurance, private healthcare, and a flexi-benefits scheme tailored to you
• The opportunity to work on a wide variety of nationally significant projects
• Full support for ongoing professional development and chartership

The role:

You'll work within our nationwide design team of masterplanners and urban designers, based in Birmingham with collaboration across our UK wide teams. While primarily focused on landscape planning, you'll also have scope to develop your design skills.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Strategic analysis and early-stage advice
• Establishing design-led landscape visions
• Landscape/townscape and visual impact assessments
• Public consultations
• Client and project team engagement

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise needed:

• Preliminary landscape and visual appraisals
• LVIA and townscape assessments (including tall buildings)
• Landscape strategies and conceptual design
• Green Belt/Grey Belt assessments
• Capacity, sensitivity, and character studies
• Contributions to Vision Documents, DAS, and Design Codes

Qualifications & Skills

• Ideally CMLI (or working towards Chartership with P2C support)
• Strong knowledge of UK planning and environmental policy
• Ability to develop designs, produce reports, and use industry software confidently

Benefits, Agile Working And Additional Information
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we're keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Solihull, Stratford upon Avon & Tunbridge Wells.

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Additional information:
Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Equal opportunities
Marrons is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.

About Marrons
Welcome to Marrons, a rapidly growing team of town planning, socio-economic, heritage, master-planning, design and architectural specialists committed to providing expert advice nationwide. We handle planning matters of all types and scales, serving major house builders, developers, manufacturers, investment companies, and more across the UK.

Specialising in coordinating, project managing, and auditing planning applications, we offer expert guidance on a wide range of issues including EIA development, urban regeneration, strategic planning, and commercial/retail planning. Leveraging our extensive experience, we negotiate with local planning authorities to secure permissions for our clients.

As part of Ampa –the UK's leading group of legal and professional services companies,

Marrons is integrated into a large multi-disciplinary team comprising lawyers, surveyors, and chartered town planners. Joining us provides access to high-quality training and support for advancing your career in planning consultancy. We prioritise the professional development of our team members and support membership of the RTPI.

Join our dynamic team at Marrons and play a key role in delivering exceptional planning solutions while advancing your career in the field.