Worcester City Council is looking to establish a multi-disciplinary Design Review Service for Worcester, to help improve design quality in new development, regeneration and refurbishment. The new service will help to raise the quality of design across the city, particularly in important public domain projects.
The City Council is inviting Expressions of Interest from suitably qualified and experienced practitioners or those who have retired but are still keeping up to date with built environment best practice, to join fellow volunteers on the Design Review Panel.
We would like to hear from you if you think you have the right skillset to offer critical-friend feedback to applicants, their agents and fellow professionals. You will also need to be able to offer some of your valuable time to ensure that Worcester continues to be a place where people want to live, work and visit because of its unique character and local distinctiveness.
We are looking for Panel members with experience and expertise in the following:
- Architecture
- Landscape architecture
- Building conservation architecture / archaeology
- Planning
- Urban design
- Transport planning
- Ecology and biodiversity
- Building surveying / construction project management
- Interior building design.
To find out more about this Design Review Service for Worcester, please see the report to our Place and Economic Development Committee.
We are open for the submission of expressions of interest until 5 June 2026.
Make your expression of interest
The selection of the Design Review Panel members will be made in consultation with the City Council’s Heritage Champion, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Place and Economic Development Committee, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Planning Committee, assisted by the Head of Planning and Economic Development.
If you have any questions about the role or the operation of the Design Review Service,
We look forward to hearing from you and hopefully to receiving your expression of interest.
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