Surveyor

CROWN ESTATE PAVING COMMISSION

Job title: Surveyor

Reporting to: Director

Contract: Permanent full-time or part-time contract 1.0 or 0.8 FTE

Location: 13 Park Square West, Regent’s Park, NW1

Job purpose: The CEPC ’s purpose is to maintain the streets, pavements and ornamental terrace gardens of The Crown Estate around Regent’s Park and to maintain gardens at Carlton House Terrace. The Surveyor is a statutorily required role, which has historically been an appropriately qualified consultant.  This role is in-house with responsibility for ensuring that the CEPC’s historically important public realm (including terrace roadways) plus any hard landscaping related infrastructure within its gardens are managed in an economic and efficient manner, whilst protecting the interest of the CEPC as the manager of The Crown’s land.  He or she is responsible for the licencing and monitoring of all works by third parties on the estate plus managing the CEPC’s insurance arrangements.  He or she is responsible to the Director for the performance of the CEPC’s in house maintenance team, relevant contractors and consultants.

Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 (pro rata if 0.8 FTE) - dependent on qualifications and experience

Background:
The Crown Estate Paving Commission (CEPC) is a unique independent rating body set up by statute in 1824.  Today it is responsible for the management of The Crown Estate land, being streets and ornamental terrace gardens, around Regent’s Park along with the latter at Carlton House Terrace. It also provides street cleaning, security patrolling and parking regulation services in its area of operation around Regent’s Park. The CEPC is independent of The Crown Estate, The Royal Parks and local authorities.
The Surveyor is a statutory role, previously performed by a consultant, who is retiring.  The Surveyor will lead and manage a committed team to ensure the CEPC’s roads and pavements (including the terrace roadways) along with their appurtenances are maintained to the highest possible standards.  The Surveyor will also, in close consultation with the Landscape Manager, lead major hard landscaping projects within the ornamental terrace gardens at Regent’s Park and Carlton House Terrace, St James’s.

The successful candidate will have exceptional skills and experience.  They must hold a relevant professional surveying qualification.   They will be required to manage and modernise the CEPC’s inspection and repair regime of its public realm and bring relevant experience and rigour to its tendering processes.  Much of the CEPC’s assets require regular repair and some of them now require significant works.  It is important that the Surveyor has the relevant professional qualification and ongoing relevant Continuing Professional Development, to keep up to date in developments relating to construction practice, tendering and contract management.  They will need to be able to effectively advocate the importance of the CEPC’s public realm and major hard landscaping garden projects to both internal and external stakeholders.

Regent’s Park is a major component of the most important town planning exercise ever carried out in London.  It is a heritage asset of international significance.

The Commissioners are traditionally, but not necessarily, resident (including corporate and former) ratepayers and those appointed ex-offico by The Crown Estate, The Royal Parks and HM Treasury.  Commissioners represent all CEPC ratepayers, not specifically those in the terrace or area in which they may live or work. Appointments are made for an initial term of three years, renewable for two further consecutive four year terms and only up to the age of seventy five. Commissioners receive no remuneration and do not usually claim any expenses arising from their duties.

The CEPC has a team of circa 30 directly employed staff, headed by the Director, Nick Packard MRICS. Further information can be found on our website.

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