An exciting opportunity has opened for a passionate and driven heritage professionals to join Kirklees and help us to conserve and manage the historic environment across the district, supporting and advising on the delivery of the Council’s ambitious heritage-led plans to enhance our historic places and input into the forthcoming Local Plan. Kirklees has a number of on-going exciting heritage related projects and schemes underway including The Cultural Heart, The George Hotel, The Transpennine Rail Upgrade, Marsden New Mills redevelopment, Marsden Blueprint, The Batley LUF project and the Dewsbury Blueprint delivery scheme amongst others. The District has over 4500 listed buildings and 60 conservation areas and so the sensitive management of these is critical, building on the recent work undertaken within the team and in collaboration with Historic England to produce an updated Conservation Area Appraisal, Management Plan and shop front guidance document to help us to support and deliver on our heritage-related aspirations going forward. Kirklees is a diverse part of West Yorkshire with a rich and varied historical environment, spread across the former mill towns and villages of the Colne, Holme, Calder and Spen valleys and extensive areas of Pennine countryside bordering the Peak District National Park. The Senior Conservation Officers sit under the Council’s Directorate for Place and within the Conservation, Design, Ecology & Trees team in Planning. The Senior Conservation Officer is required to work alongside other specialist teams, including planning, planning policy, regeneration & town centres, biodiversity, landscape and arboriculture. As the Council’s Senior Conservation Officer, you will provide authoritative heritage advice, guidance and support to colleagues, customers and stakeholders. You will provide pre application advice and guidance on heritage issues, and case manage and respond to Listed Building consultations and DM consultations affecting the historic environment from the planning teams. If you are a driven and committed heritage professional with a passion for public sector working and a desire to positively shape and influence on all heritage related matters within planning, then come and join our fantastic, multi-disciplinary team. If this post interests you, we would love to hear from you. Please note that we reserve the right to close the advert at any time and so we would encourage you to submit an early application. Helen Bower is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.