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Landscape Architect

Saffron Walden, GBOn-site

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Provides landscape design input across residential and mixed-use developments, from early concept through detailed design and delivery, collaborating with land, planning, and construction teams.

About this role

Help us create places people are proud to call home.

We’re looking for a talented Landscape Architect to join Hill and help shape the landscape, public realm and placemaking across our residential and mixed-use developments.

Working across projects from early concept and planning through to detailed design and delivery, you’ll collaborate with our Land, Planning, Technical, Development and Construction teams to create high-quality, sustainable and distinctive places.

What you’ll be doing

  • Providing landscape design input across new and live developments

  • Supporting site layouts, masterplans and placemaking strategies

  • Reviewing and coordinating all landscape designs

  • Creating and developing hard and soft landscape proposals

  • Supporting planning applications and landscape conditions

  • Integrating Biodiversity Net Gain, SuDS and green infrastructure

  • Working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure designs are practical, coordinated and deliverable

  • Visiting sites to help maintain landscape quality through construction

What we’re looking for

  • Degree or postgraduate qualification in Landscape Architecture

  • Experience within a landscape practice, developer, housebuilder or multidisciplinary environment

  • Good understanding of the UK planning system

  • Knowledge of BNG, sustainable drainage and green infrastructure

  • Strong design skills with a practical and commercially aware approach

  • Experience taking projects from concept and planning through to delivery

What you’ll get:

  • 26 days holiday

  • Private healthcare and wellbeing platform

  • Hill Incentive scheme and retail discounts

  • Volunteering days and continuous learning opportunities

  • A high-performing and supportive team culture

  • competitive salary and package

Why Hill?

At Hill, we offer more than just a job — we offer the opportunity to make a real and lasting impact. Every person here contributes to delivering sustainable, high-quality homes and shaping vibrant communities across the UK.

Our culture is underpinned by our values:

  • Ambition – we set bold goals and support each other to exceed them

  • Impact – we focus on delivering meaningful outcomes

  • Agility – we move quickly, adapt confidently, and embrace change

  • Collaboration – we work together to achieve more, sharing success along the way

As a privately owned business, we’re able to move with pace and purpose. We invest in people, support career growth, and empower individuals to lead from wherever they stand. Hard-working, driven people thrive here — and are recognised for what they deliver and how they deliver it.

Join Hill and be part of a forward-thinking, values-led team. Together, we’re not just building homes — we’re building a lasting legacy.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and can provide adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

This is a great opportunity to influence landscape design across Hill’s developments and help us create distinctive, sustainable places with a lasting legacy.

Skills

Biodiversity Net GainGreen InfrastructureHard And Soft Landscape DesignLandscape ArchitectureMasterplansPlacemaking StrategiesPlanning ApplicationsSite LayoutsSustainable Drainage (SuDS)UK Planning System

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