Senior/Principal Landscape Planner – with LVIA experience

Overview

In this Senior Landscape Planner role, you will lead landscape inputs across defined workstreams, delivering robust, site-sensitive outputs that support sustainable development. You’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to shape design and environmental assessment outcomes for wind, solar, transmission, data centre, and urban projects across the UK and beyond. You will mentor juniors, manage workload with limited supervision, and help craft compelling client and stakeholder communications. Join a culture that values collaborative problem-solving and long-term, sustainable place-making.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• matched pension contributions
• private medical cover and life assurance
• remote working policy
• flexible work environment
• commitment to personal and professional development

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate landscape inputs for defined project workstreams, ensuring high-quality, technically accurate and timely outputs
• Apply specialist landscape knowledge to analyse information, identify issues and develop robust solutions
• Undertake research, data collection, site visits, technical photography and landscape assessments
• Prepare clear written, graphic and presentation materials for design, planning and environmental assessment reports
• Lead or contribute to client, stakeholder and multidisciplinary project meetings
• Work collaboratively with internal teams, clients and external consultants while mentoring junior colleagues
• Manage and prioritise your own workload with limited supervision, contributing to proposals, tenders and resource planning
• Use relevant professional standards, digital tools and software to improve project delivery, efficiency and quality
• Understand when and where to seek advice or support from more experienced colleagues

Key requirements

• Chartered Membership of the Landscape Institute, or equivalent professional accreditation, preferred
• Relevant professional experience in landscape architecture, planning and assessment (wind farm experience highly desirable)
• Ability to lead and coordinate landscape inputs for defined project workstreams
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and numerical skills with ability to develop robust solutions
• Experience producing clear written, graphic and presentation materials
• Excellent English communication and collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams
• Well-organised with ability to manage workloads independently and mentor juniors
• Proficiency in software including Microsoft Office, GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk packages and/or Revit

• diligence
• proactivity
• excellent communication
• GIS
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Autodesk packages and/or Revit

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