To help promote and achieve excellent design and to provide specialist advice on design matters on all types and scale of planning schemes or other corporate priorities. Conserve the City’s heritage whilst enabling appropriate development across the City and ensure a quality, modern, customer focussed and business friendly service. 

• To help in the preparation of masterplansand development frameworks.
• To contribute to the preparation of good practice design guidance.
• To work withinthe Planning team to meet the aims and objectives of the service plan and work programme.
• To help deliver design briefs for key sites in the City, prior to securing development proposals.
• To ensure thatnew development will complement the historic environment.
• Conserve the City’s heritage whilst enabling appropriate development across the City
• To work closely with the development plans team to ensure that design and heritage matters are properly integrated into the Local Plan process.
• To maintain good partnerships working with CABE and key partners of the City Council.
• To help in any special project work undertaken bythe Planning Team.
• To promote and advocate Public Art within the City
• To secure public art as an integral element within the Local Plan and the development management process, especially as part of the S106 Agreements.
• To review and update current policy for the production of art in public places policy and to produce planning guidance material and promotional/educational material on best practice.
• To represent the City Council through presentations/attendance at conferences

• Drive for social value through all activities, ensuring wider social, economic and environmental benefits for the council, residents and communities.
• Being fully accountablefor managing the council’s resources well and complying with statutory requirements. This includes managing time, avoiding unnecessary waste, reuse and recycle resources to reduce personal impact.
• Embed the Local Plan’s vision and strategic priorities in planning decision making to help maximise development opportunities.

If you would like to talk to a member of the team about the role or have an informal discussion, please contact Jill McCluskey at jill.mccluskey@liverpool.gov.uk.