Location
Cambridge

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Are you an experienced and motivated Landscape Architect looking for your next career move within a highly reputable firm? Join our busy Master Planning, Landscape, and Assessment team at Bidwells in Cambridge. The Masterplanning, Landscape and Assessment (MLA) Team is an integral part of our award-winning Planning department, working across cities, towns, villages, and rural areas to assess natural systems, built form, and landscape character. We shape design strategies that feel authentic and build strong planning narratives, ensuring schemes are imaginative and deliverable. Whether shaping new communities or enhancing existing places, we focus on long-term value and lasting impact to create places that people actually use.

Working closely alongside the Head of Masterplanning and Landscape Architecture, the Senior Landscape Architect will provide professional advice, prepare strategies, deliver projects, and act in the best interests of clients regarding all landscape, urban design, and planning matters. The work is varied and no day will be the same.

Key responsibilities include:
- Undertake assessments to establish site constraints and assess development potential including detailed inspections, planning histories, and policy analyses
- Prepare Design and Access Statements, Landscape or Green Infrastructure Strategies, Development Briefs or Design Codes
- Deliver technical landscape architectural schemes, coordinating with contractors and other technical consultants
- Prepare, monitor, and promote masterplans and landscape strategy input for planning applications in accordance with client instructions
- Provide professional advice and support to Planning Consultants
- Undertake Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA) and Landscape and Visual Appraisals (LVA) as required
- Manage and anticipate clients’ needs, ensuring targets, deadlines, and service levels are achieved
- Maintain existing client relationships and identify new business opportunities
- Attend networking events

Why Bidwells?
Bidwells is a privately-owned, independent Partnership with an inclusive, entrepreneurial culture. As a certified B Corporation (B-Corp), we are dedicated to using our business as a force for good, driving innovation, and creating long-term value for clients, communities, and the environment.

What’s in it for you:
- Competitive Salary with generous group bonus scheme
- Real Living Wage employer committed to fair pay
- Comprehensive benefits including up to 8% matched pension, 28 days holiday (+ bank holidays), birthday off, wellness day, paid sabbaticals, private medical cover, medicash plan, lifestyle discounts and perks
- Professional development with continuous learning, study support, and promotion opportunities
- Innovative culture at the forefront of industry trends
- Enhanced family leave policies and agile working to support work-life balance

Bidwells fosters a truly inclusive culture of belonging where everyone can thrive and succeed as their authentic selves. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, sex, gender identity or expression, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief. Flexible working requests are considered from day one.

Experience
- Relevant Landscape Architecture project experience
- Professional experience in Landscape Practice or a relevant area
- Some experience preparing Master Plans, Photomontages, 3D Visualisations, and working drawing packages, ideally for RIBA work stages 1-7
- Experience building and maintaining client relationships
- Awareness and understanding of economic issues affecting MLA/planning consultancies is useful

About you
- Ideally a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI) or currently on the pathway to Chartership
- IT proficient, particularly with Adobe Suite, AutoDesk, SketchUp, and MS Office
- Strong report writing skills and excellent business English with good attention to detail
- Full driving licence

Qualifications
- Relevant undergraduate or postgraduate qualification in Landscape Architecture