Historic Environment Consultant​/Senior Consultant

Historic Environment Consultant / Senior Consultant

London, Bristol, Cardiff, Sheffield, Manchester, Edinburgh or Glasgow

This role will help LUC to further build the strength and resilience of our Historic Environment Team, as well as actively supporting the strategy for the team and LUC as a whole. Supported by our existing Historic Environment Team, the successful candidate will be able to participate in all aspects of the delivery of our project work. This is an excellent opportunity for an early‑career historic environment specialist to develop fieldwork, research, evaluation and valuable interdisciplinary team working skills.

We are looking for candidates with a good work ethic, enthusiasm and keen critical thinking.

The successful candidate will play an important role in helping deliver LUC’s wide ranging portfolio of historic environment work, encompassing strategic and site‑specific impact assessment at a range of scales, and contributing to nationally important applied research, through to conservation management plans and asset‑specific management advice.

• Assessing the impact of development proposals on the significance of heritage assets, through the heritage consents, town and country planning and EIA processes.
• Advising clients on schemes ranging from major infrastructure to small‑scale changes to heritage assets.
• Developing innovative and robust mitigation and enhancement options, in collaboration with other environmental specialists.
• Peer review of Environmental Statements on behalf of local authorities and third‑sector clients.

• Analysis of the heritage values and significance, including the contribution of setting, of a range of heritage asset types – including scheduled monuments, listed buildings, parks and gardens, conservation areas and world heritage sites, as well as non‑designated heritage assets.

• Analysis of the settlement morphology and the development of historic landscapes, e.g. Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC), Historic Area Assessment (HAA) and contributions to conservation area appraisals.
• Assessment of visual and spatial qualities of an area, and how they influence character and appearance.
• Identification of management issues and opportunities for enhancement.

• High‑level analysis of the historic environment, including identification of themes, influences, constraints, and opportunities (e.g. to feed into heritage strategy and local plan evidence base).
• Providing and producing guidance on the assessment of significance and management of the historic environment.
• Input into local historic environment policy and guidance.
• Developing assessment methodologies, criteria and standards for local assessments and designations.

• Undertaking desk‑based analysis of funding agreements and selected options, and their interaction with the historic environment.
• Field survey and assessment of options’ effects on heritage assets and historic landscape character.
• Collaborative working with a large multidisciplinary team, building understanding of heritage issues in land management.
• Contributing to analysis, interpretation and reporting of results.
• Liaison with land managers and wider research project teams, both within LUC and external colleagues.

Our orderbook generally contains these principal strands of work, but new opportunities and work streams arise all the time – therefore a flexible approach and keenness to learn and develop is an advantage.

This role can be based in any of LUC’s offices. We work in a hybrid model with people being in the office a minimum of two days per week. There will also be travel required to visit sites, client offices and other office locations.

A full‑time role is based on 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday). However, LUC has a strong track record in flexible working, and we have been recognised for our flexible working culture, so we are happy to discuss a range of flexible working options for this role including part‑time hours (minimum 30…